1. There's basically nothing to do on Orkut. Still, with its invite-only system, it keeps out tons of people who otherwise might want to try it.
2. THe message boards are completely dead. The only new threads I've seen lately are "brazil?", in communities that have nothing to with Brazil.
3. There's no blogging functions. Sure, don't have to use it, but would be nice. Then I can use the blog functions to bitch about Brazilians invading Orkut.
I actually rememember a Minidisc music section(just like a regular music library, but all on minidiscs) at Title Wave 10 years ago. Of course now Title Wave is gone. Too bad, it was a good video store.
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The thing that caught my eye in "I, Robot" was will smith's Audi. Instead of having regular wheels it had spheres for wheels. this allowed him to basically travel in any direction in any heading. Pretty dang slick.
You would be doing away with conventional steering hardware, probably for a bunch of electronics to "run" the wheel in any direction you like in conjunction with the other wheels. My question is, how would you do it? Would it be just like an AC motor wrapped in rubber, with the rest of the motor surrounding the sphere wheels?
And what if they hold a minimum-wage job at McDonald's? You'd probably be waiting 500 years to get your money.
Here's where my beautiful idea comes into play. If they have no money/assets/whatever to pay you off, you get first crack at their organs.
I'm betting you could get quite a good deal on one of their kidneys. Get said bad driver's kidney, then sell it to some rich couple who's kid needs a transplant. Doesn't matter if they are an organ donor or not.
Would also be an incentive for bad, noninsured driver no to do it a second time.
Nothing pissed me off more in CS when servers were playing the same map(dust & dust2) OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's like nobody wanted to make new maps, or even try out new maps.
That would be an entirely different project. My idea (and the article's to some extent) was to get time to ownage(tt0) by visiting website, not by being a website.
Hell, every slashdot article is an experiment on web site stress.
I wanted to take a 98(non-second edition) box, no patches, no firewall, and no updates and visit a frew pr0n sites with IE, and see how much I could get it to be 0wned with spyware, plugins, popups, etc before it was rendered unsuable. Make it a competition to see how quickly it would bring the system down.
The screenshots would have been hilarious. If I only had VMware.
Might run like crap, but it would be a Treekkie dream to have a bunch of thumb drives in an array as such. Then you just need to get a drunk Asian man to take them all out and play with them like in the ST:TNG episode "Naked Now". Having an android put them back in the right order really fast(looked like it was filmed backwards) will cost extra.
Well to counter that isn't some company making a game based on the classic movie "The Warriors?" With the 800000 gang members in that, that was pretty diverse. Ranging from female gangs to baseball player mimes.
With the excessive corporate sponsorship(okay that never stopped), the banning of non-sponsored products, the excessive surveillance, the silly Draconian laws enacted over what city takes place in, blah blah blah.......honestly, screw the Olympics.
I have no intentions of watching them, and I'm just waiting for the IOC secret police to make their first arrests to someone who erects a "screwtheolympics.org" website.
I think it may intrigue viewers from the fact that the story line will get more jumbled up than seen on Red Dwarf(last season: let's just reset everything and have no onboard disaster!) or Doctor Who(went all over the place).
Let's not concern ourselves with the integrity of the story lines. It's beyond the point of no return. Sure, it was nice that DS9 picked up after Generations(notice sisko mentions the Enterprise getting destroyed). That time has past us. now we just get to watch implausable situations involving time travel in order to get more viewers. Anything could happen!
Hell, even I'll watch even though i am now 100% confused on the xindi situation due to teh fact I saw episodes out of order.
I remember wanting to try one popular ut2004 mod, but installation involved somewhat vague instructions to copy over a bunch of files(with subdirs) into your ut directory.
I didn't even bother, not wanting to screw up my pristine ut2004 install for some mod.
...failed just because there was so much focus on the screen. If I wanted that much focus on the screen, I'd play a video game.
There was some pac-man themed pinball/arcade game 20 years prior and that never caught on. Why would they try again with pinball 2k?
The sad part is, the pinball playfield on a 2k machine is so sparse(no "gimmicks", not many ramps, etc) the gameplay resembles pre-1989 pinball machines!
To me the golden era of pinball started with Fun House, Diner, etc. Lots and lots of ramps to play with, and things got multi-level. I'd like to think I mastered Rudy's "Fun house" but NEVER could conquer Star Trek: THe next Generation. If i had the $$, one would be in my bar.
Williams pinball machines reign supreme(all 2k machines aside). The "hook" pinball machine by data east got so boring to me I left it for someone else to play with 4 credits I earned. I was on a winning streak where I kept getting free game after free game. Boredom won.
I would have thought with Google's backing Orkut would have blown friendster and myspace away in all features. Sadly, it is suffering from the same problems its competitors are.
You're right. It takes forever to login, only to find all 20000 communities one is joined to has no message board activity.
There's no blogging function either. While it may not be used much on myspace or friendster, it's a little nice to have, not unlike the blogging features on slashdot.
The game was 99% waiting around watching 1-line cut scenes from gangsters. Sometimes you got to choose a line to say, sometmes you got to do some haphazard drive-by shootings. Mostly, your pointer was a fly on the wall.
was 374kb/sec with bittorrent. Maybe I was just lucky. It was for the Cameron Diaz bondage video. Never anywhere else have I got a download speed that fast.
I think it's a neat variation. It's better than the all-too-flashy neon light decorated batmobile in the last movie. That seemed more like a showcar than a "fight the bad guys" vehicle. The Batmobile from the first movie was a well-done machine.
I don't see the justification in jet engines though for the previous vehicles. But with all the torque you would need on the big tires on the new one, perhaps the engine is justified.
And does the web as a whole expect people with ADD and lots of disposable cash to buy everything they see on a fucking ad banner?
I'm sorry, I don't have enough $ to keep clicking on ad banners and buy everything they sell me. I pay for cable, and still get commercials. Explain that to me.
I pay for Internet, and it's nice that I can filter out ads. If a site can't exist without said ads, screw 'em. Let's go back to the Internet before it was a giant shopping mall.
This article I do not agree with. To me, the most beautiful video game 'art' was in the flyers for early 1980s arcade games and their marquees. Sure, there were "cliches" such as glowing text, grids with a perspective deformation, and red-orange-yellow combos, but I love it.
Check out http://www.arcadeflyers.com/ for a gallery of some of the most(IMO) beautiful artwork to have graced the decade. Sure, some are cheesy, but that's where it's at for me.
Is it me, or do new PDAs come out every 3 frickin' months!??! Even with common sw platforms like Windows CE and PalmOS it sounds like a major hassle trying to make software that gets the most out of it.
trying to by accessories for said models sounds like fun too. Of course, I'm still using my years-old 16mb Handspring Visor. Man did I have high hopes for that.
I think my first experience seeing a monitor with 1024x768 was in 1990. A guy i knew had a Tandy 286 clone that could display Cshow GIFs in 1024x768, but I think with only 16 colors. Ahead of its time, IMO.
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1. There's basically nothing to do on Orkut.
Still, with its invite-only system, it keeps out tons of people who otherwise might want to try it.
2. THe message boards are completely dead. The only new threads I've seen lately are "brazil?", in communities that have nothing to with Brazil.
3. There's no blogging functions. Sure, don't have to use it, but would be nice. Then I can use the blog functions to bitch about Brazilians invading Orkut.
4. Brazilian invasion. Need I say more?
Okay, looking at the price for the Zodiac 2:
$399.
WHAAATT?!??
$399
WHAAT??!??
I said, $399
WHAT????
$399.
Do I think this costs too much?
YEAS!@#!@#
Maybe I'd get one if they vastly reduced the price.
O-KAY!@!@#@#@
I actually rememember a Minidisc music section(just like a regular music library, but all on minidiscs) at Title Wave 10 years ago. Of course now Title Wave is gone. Too bad, it was a good video store.
The thing that caught my eye in "I, Robot" was will smith's Audi. Instead of having regular wheels it had spheres for wheels. this allowed him to basically travel in any direction in any heading. Pretty dang slick.
You would be doing away with conventional steering hardware, probably for a bunch of electronics to "run" the wheel in any direction you like in conjunction with the other wheels. My question is, how would you do it? Would it be just like an AC motor wrapped in rubber, with the rest of the motor surrounding the sphere wheels?
That would make parallel parking a cinch.
And what if they hold a minimum-wage job at McDonald's? You'd probably be waiting 500 years to get your money.
Here's where my beautiful idea comes into play. If they have no money/assets/whatever to pay you off, you get first crack at their organs.
I'm betting you could get quite a good deal on one of their kidneys. Get said bad driver's kidney, then sell it to some rich couple who's kid needs a transplant. Doesn't matter if they are an organ donor or not.
Would also be an incentive for bad, noninsured driver no to do it a second time.
Nothing pissed me off more in CS when servers were playing the same map(dust & dust2) OVER AND OVER AGAIN. It's like nobody wanted to make new maps, or even try out new maps.
You just gave me an idea.
1. make linux distro+sw package so complicated only your team of tech support reps know how to get it to work.
2. charge a lot for support
3. profit!
That would be an entirely different project. My idea (and the article's to some extent) was to get time to ownage(tt0) by visiting website, not by being a website.
Hell, every slashdot article is an experiment on web site stress.
I wanted to take a 98(non-second edition) box, no patches, no firewall, and no updates and visit a frew pr0n sites with IE, and see how much I could get it to be 0wned with spyware, plugins, popups, etc before it was rendered unsuable. Make it a competition to see how quickly it would bring the system down.
The screenshots would have been hilarious. If I only had VMware.
Might run like crap, but it would be a Treekkie dream to have a bunch of thumb drives in an array as such. Then you just need to get a drunk Asian man to take them all out and play with them like in the ST:TNG episode "Naked Now". Having an android put them back in the right order really fast(looked like it was filmed backwards) will cost extra.
Well to counter that isn't some company making a game based on the classic movie "The Warriors?" With the 800000 gang members in that, that was pretty diverse. Ranging from female gangs to baseball player mimes.
Many moons ago there was a small video with some unknown rapper talking about the effects of piracy to 2 kids.
Someone's got it on the web somewhere. Quite possibly the funniest thing you have ever seen for propaganda.
With the excessive corporate sponsorship(okay that never stopped), the banning of non-sponsored products, the excessive surveillance, the silly Draconian laws enacted over what city takes place in, blah blah blah.... ...honestly, screw the Olympics.
I have no intentions of watching them, and I'm just waiting for the IOC secret police to make their first arrests to someone who erects a "screwtheolympics.org" website.
I think it may intrigue viewers from the fact that the story line will get more jumbled up than seen on Red Dwarf(last season: let's just reset everything and have no onboard disaster!) or Doctor Who(went all over the place).
Let's not concern ourselves with the integrity of the story lines. It's beyond the point of no return. Sure, it was nice that DS9 picked up after Generations(notice sisko mentions the Enterprise getting destroyed). That time has past us. now we just get to watch implausable situations involving time travel in order to get more viewers. Anything could happen!
Hell, even I'll watch even though i am now 100% confused on the xindi situation due to teh fact I saw episodes out of order.
I remember wanting to try one popular ut2004 mod, but installation involved somewhat vague instructions to copy over a bunch of files(with subdirs) into your ut directory.
I didn't even bother, not wanting to screw up my pristine ut2004 install for some mod.
...failed just because there was so much focus on the screen. If I wanted that much focus on the screen, I'd play a video game.
There was some pac-man themed pinball/arcade game 20 years prior and that never caught on. Why would they try again with pinball 2k?
The sad part is, the pinball playfield on a 2k machine is so sparse(no "gimmicks", not many ramps, etc) the gameplay resembles pre-1989 pinball machines!
To me the golden era of pinball started with Fun House, Diner, etc. Lots and lots of ramps to play with, and things got multi-level. I'd like to think I mastered Rudy's "Fun house" but NEVER could conquer Star Trek: THe next Generation. If i had the $$, one would be in my bar.
Williams pinball machines reign supreme(all 2k machines aside). The "hook" pinball machine by data east got so boring to me I left it for someone else to play with 4 credits I earned. I was on a winning streak where I kept getting free game after free game. Boredom won.
I would have thought with Google's backing Orkut would have blown friendster and myspace away in all features. Sadly, it is suffering from the same problems its competitors are.
You're right. It takes forever to login, only to find all 20000 communities one is joined to has no message board activity.
There's no blogging function either. While it may not be used much on myspace or friendster, it's a little nice to have, not unlike the blogging features on slashdot.
Oh, and Orkut is still a sausage fest. kthx.
....for God's sake DON'T enter a motorcycle, have it go for like 1 foot and have it fall over like last time.
I remember playing it on the Apple //GS.
The game was 99% waiting around watching 1-line cut scenes from gangsters. Sometimes you got to choose a line to say, sometmes you got to do some haphazard drive-by shootings. Mostly, your pointer was a fly on the wall.
was 374kb/sec with bittorrent. Maybe I was just lucky. It was for the Cameron Diaz bondage video. Never anywhere else have I got a download speed that fast.
Mix equal parts:
F-1 race car
Military troop carrier
I think it's a neat variation. It's better than the all-too-flashy neon light decorated batmobile in the last movie. That seemed more like a showcar than a "fight the bad guys" vehicle. The Batmobile from the first movie was a well-done machine.
I don't see the justification in jet engines though for the previous vehicles. But with all the torque you would need on the big tires on the new one, perhaps the engine is justified.
And does the web as a whole expect people with ADD and lots of disposable cash to buy everything they see on a fucking ad banner?
I'm sorry, I don't have enough $ to keep clicking on ad banners and buy everything they sell me. I pay for cable, and still get commercials. Explain that to me.
I pay for Internet, and it's nice that I can filter out ads. If a site can't exist without said ads, screw 'em. Let's go back to the Internet before it was a giant shopping mall.
This article I do not agree with. To me, the most beautiful video game 'art' was in the flyers for early 1980s arcade games and their marquees. Sure, there were "cliches" such as glowing text, grids with a perspective deformation, and red-orange-yellow combos, but I love it.
Check out http://www.arcadeflyers.com/ for a gallery of some of the most(IMO) beautiful artwork to have graced the decade. Sure, some are cheesy, but that's where it's at for me.
Is it me, or do new PDAs come out every 3 frickin' months!??! Even with common sw platforms like Windows CE and PalmOS it sounds like a major hassle trying to make software that gets the most out of it.
trying to by accessories for said models sounds like fun too. Of course, I'm still using my years-old 16mb Handspring Visor. Man did I have high hopes for that.
I think my first experience seeing a monitor with 1024x768 was in 1990. A guy i knew had a Tandy 286 clone that could display Cshow GIFs in 1024x768, but I think with only 16 colors. Ahead of its time, IMO.