I might be compelled to pay comcast if they hosted super-fast(ie super-low ping, but also fast server proecessorwise) gaming servers for UT2004, etc. Have other comcast players hop on board and have some really nice streamlined gaming.
Idea has been brought to comcast before, but shot down.
Let's not forget the additional padding of extra speed on certain states. In Minnesota, it's 5mph on average, but on I-35E northbound(during rush hour nonetheless) people were whizzing by at 90mph.
Okay, probably a 1 in a billion shot of happening but..
Hypothetical situation here:
Say you own a 2003 Yugo. Yugo goes out of business, or closes down all dealerships in your neck of the woods. Yugo never revealed their diagnostic codes outside the company. Your car breaks down with some weird diagnostic codde you can't decipher. What do you do?
Reminds me of the "screen display" system teh Borg had in ST:TNG. They had several external images of the starship battles arranged on a rotating cube. Fits their ship.
Auto dealers can still make $$$ on selling parts/service for said used cars. And let's not forget the Honda(and other brands) certified used cars. Then there's also the environmental advantages.
The worst offender(not for Sega) was King of Chicago. You spend 90% listening to gangsters talk, and sometimes you get to do a drive-by shooting or make a decision.
So is this better than "invasion" for ut2004? I spent more time waiting after being killed by seemingly immmortal aliens after about a minute in any Invasion game. Kinda boring after awhile.
1. Buy technics turntable + phono amp 2. Go to used record store and buy albums with oh-so-80s lookng covers 3. (optonal) rip to MP3 4. Enjoy music that has been forgotten and never ripped to cd.
I never paid more than $4 for a record, being exposed to all sorts of music I've never even heard of before! Mind you, it's all 80s, but it's good!
We only saw that in one episode. Homer was driving to work, and had to get through a huge traffic jam. Eventually Homer gets there and Bart at home, which is neighboring the power plant parking lot says hi to Homer. Funny joke, but I think that was just a one off.
I wonder if there's also a web page describing every episode their cars have been wrecked. The earliest I can think of is when the station wagon(not the pink sedan with the crumpled fender) gets eaten by Truckasaurus.
It used to be I could watch Crossing Jordan and 3rd Watch on Monday nights, trying to relax after work.
Then they put 3rd Watch to Fridays, and now I've completely lost on the storyline. I don't want to watch Fear Factor or the 2000th installment of Dateline NBC.
Ah yes, Fridays is the waiting room for the graveyard of television shows.
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I love that pic of the eye syensor glasses. In the early 1980s(and the blondie video "rapture"), I had a pair of sunglasses with blinking LEDs in the lenses. This must be the high tech revival.
Guy 1: I'm gonna kick your ass! Guy 2: Bring it on! Guy 1: Fine! Where do you wanna meet? Guy 2: I'll go to your place just to kick..your..ass. Where do you live? Guy 1: 1328 Farnsworth street in Edina Guy 2: Oh I'm so there. Wait, I'm in Rosevile Guy 1: Okay, you can take I-494 westbound, then take hwy 100 northbound. Guy 2: Can't do that, 494 near me is closed and there's no detour Guy 1: Okay, how about County road B?....and so on, and so on...
if we do discover intelligent life on another planet(humanoid or not), won't everybody go nuts? Will suddenly religious people feel cheated, and sci fi nuts rejoice? I think there would be rioting in the streets.
There really isn't enough diversity in music to support even a modest number of unique radio stations. Most of them would be playing dead-air or else experiencing wide overlaps in content.
I'm gonna call bs on that. The local 80s station here(Mix104) just keeps playing the same 300 80s 'top-40' songs over and over and over and over and over again. I have more 80s musical variety in my car than they do in their whole "playlist".
I'm still not good at Tony Hawk. I can't do million-point combos like most people.
Tony Hawk 3 was fun for me. I could accomplish the little goals or have my friend do it, who's an SSX Tricky veteran.
Then Tony Hawk 4 came around. It was a bit harder, and there was a point where my friend nor I could get past any goal in Kona park. It lost its appeal to me from being so darn hard it gathered dust.
It seems things changed with Tony Hawk Underground. many of the challenges are so darn easy even a n00b like me can do them. But there's a difference: I'm actually enjoying playing THUG than getting frustrated on timers running down/failing overall in Tony Hawk 4.
If a bunch of spyware sites are set to a certain # of hosts, can we just make them resolve to 127.0.0.1 with a nice custom hosts file?
I know mike's ad blocking hosts file does it for pop-ups, but what about stuff like bonzi buddy?
If so I'd like to put it on my dad's computer. Problem is, a lot of little rinky-dink apps he downloads have spyware just piggybacking on it. Then again there's a few utilities that take care of that.
Ahh i can see in a few years we'll have a nice internet that will blindfold themselves to such malicious sites.
I'm really curious as to why on my Comcast service TechTV is listed, but I'm not authorized for it. I pay $125/month. How hard is it to get the freakin' channel?
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As a slight correction, the copy-paste problem you describe isn't a Linux issue; it's an X Window System issue.
Correction to your correction:
Seeing is that the only time I use X Windows is when I'm in Linux, it is a problem in your golden boy OS, Linux.
This reminds me of the mentality I saw with the linux-based media player thread.
I might be compelled to pay comcast if they hosted super-fast(ie super-low ping, but also fast server proecessorwise) gaming servers for UT2004, etc. Have other comcast players hop on board and have some really nice streamlined gaming.
Idea has been brought to comcast before, but shot down.
50 million deaths due to aging that occur each and every year
Won't somebody put a stop to this!
Let's not forget the additional padding of extra speed on certain states. In Minnesota, it's 5mph on average, but on I-35E northbound(during rush hour nonetheless) people were whizzing by at 90mph.
Okay, probably a 1 in a billion shot of happening but..
Hypothetical situation here:
Say you own a 2003 Yugo. Yugo goes out of business, or closes down all dealerships in your neck of the woods. Yugo never revealed their diagnostic codes outside the company. Your car breaks down with some weird diagnostic codde you can't decipher. What do you do?
Reminds me of the "screen display" system teh Borg had in ST:TNG. They had several external images of the starship battles arranged on a rotating cube. Fits their ship.
Auto dealers can still make $$$ on selling parts/service for said used cars. And let's not forget the Honda(and other brands) certified used cars. Then there's also the environmental advantages.
The worst offender(not for Sega) was King of Chicago. You spend 90% listening to gangsters talk, and sometimes you get to do a drive-by shooting or make a decision.
So is this better than "invasion" for ut2004? I spent more time waiting after being killed by seemingly immmortal aliens after about a minute in any Invasion game. Kinda boring after awhile.
1. Buy technics turntable + phono amp
2. Go to used record store and buy albums with oh-so-80s lookng covers
3. (optonal) rip to MP3
4. Enjoy music that has been forgotten and never ripped to cd.
I never paid more than $4 for a record, being exposed to all sorts of music I've never even heard of before! Mind you, it's all 80s, but it's good!
But it does Rhyme Does this remind you oldsters of the Coleco Adam?
You mean the crappy controllers?
Probubally didn't really know what they were doing.
Ah the classic Linux cop-out.
If this unit was Microsoft made, the OS would be blamed left and right.
We only saw that in one episode. Homer was driving to work, and had to get through a huge traffic jam. Eventually Homer gets there and Bart at home, which is neighboring the power plant parking lot says hi to Homer. Funny joke, but I think that was just a one off.
I wonder if there's also a web page describing every episode their cars have been wrecked. The earliest I can think of is when the station wagon(not the pink sedan with the crumpled fender) gets eaten by Truckasaurus.
Sounds like the 3D projection we saw in Minority Report, where subjects pop out of the scenery.
Ever since last week Comcast has been off and on in terms of connectivity to anything. Same problem on your side?
WTF is up with Friday?
It used to be I could watch Crossing Jordan and 3rd Watch on Monday nights, trying to relax after work.
Then they put 3rd Watch to Fridays, and now I've completely lost on the storyline. I don't want to watch Fear Factor or the 2000th installment of Dateline NBC.
Ah yes, Fridays is the waiting room for the graveyard of television shows.
I love that pic of the eye syensor glasses. In the early 1980s(and the blondie video "rapture"), I had a pair of sunglasses with blinking LEDs in the lenses. This must be the high tech revival.
Guy 1: I'm gonna kick your ass! ....and so on, and so on...
Guy 2: Bring it on!
Guy 1: Fine! Where do you wanna meet?
Guy 2: I'll go to your place just to kick..your..ass. Where do you live?
Guy 1: 1328 Farnsworth street in Edina
Guy 2: Oh I'm so there. Wait, I'm in Rosevile
Guy 1: Okay, you can take I-494 westbound, then take hwy 100 northbound.
Guy 2: Can't do that, 494 near me is closed and there's no detour
Guy 1: Okay, how about County road B?
if we do discover intelligent life on another planet(humanoid or not), won't everybody go nuts? Will suddenly religious people feel cheated, and sci fi nuts rejoice? I think there would be rioting in the streets.
There really isn't enough diversity in music to support even a modest number of unique radio stations. Most of them would be playing dead-air or else experiencing wide overlaps in content.
I'm gonna call bs on that. The local 80s station here(Mix104) just keeps playing the same 300 80s 'top-40' songs over and over and over and over and over again. I have more 80s musical variety in my car than they do in their whole "playlist".
I'm still not good at Tony Hawk. I can't do million-point combos like most people.
Tony Hawk 3 was fun for me. I could accomplish the little goals or have my friend do it, who's an SSX Tricky veteran.
Then Tony Hawk 4 came around. It was a bit harder, and there was a point where my friend nor I could get past any goal in Kona park. It lost its appeal to me from being so darn hard it gathered dust.
It seems things changed with Tony Hawk Underground. many of the challenges are so darn easy even a n00b like me can do them. But there's a difference: I'm actually enjoying playing THUG than getting frustrated on timers running down/failing overall in Tony Hawk 4.
I was thinking Internet backbones would be a good start. Let's deny spyware to an entire nation. :)
If a bunch of spyware sites are set to a certain # of hosts, can we just make them resolve to 127.0.0.1 with a nice custom hosts file?
I know mike's ad blocking hosts file does it for pop-ups, but what about stuff like bonzi buddy?
If so I'd like to put it on my dad's computer. Problem is, a lot of little rinky-dink apps he downloads have spyware just piggybacking on it. Then again there's a few utilities that take care of that.
Ahh i can see in a few years we'll have a nice internet that will blindfold themselves to such malicious sites.
I'm really curious as to why on my Comcast service TechTV is listed, but I'm not authorized for it. I pay $125/month. How hard is it to get the freakin' channel?
You gotta admit those DVD cases they are sending out are nice.
My roomate took one, then took the free Twisted metal black online CD case(it was just cardboard sleeve), and stuffed it in the wrap of the DVD case.
The result? Packaging that looks just like a store-bought PS2 game.