So they run some sort of Turing test to see if it's a script(computer) or a human clicking those ads?
I think someone just needs to build a better click-script. Like for instance(now don't patent this), have it click at DIFFERENT spots on the same banner spot! yeah! IPO here I come!
You know, I actually bought that game since it looked so bad. Kmart was having an out-of-business sale and I couldn't resist picking it up for $5.
Imagine the reflection I had on myself when I realized I was spending 5 minutes with passing the snowboard level. the darn thing's controls suck and all she could say was "ouch!"
Run an Internet backbone that lets all traffic through except for mail. Nope, sorry, we can't transfer mail packets over. You'll have to use some other company.
Okay, so it won't make me tons of money, but think of how stress-free the support staff will be. Or maybe not.
Go to phonelosers.net for some info on TTY related pranks, including, but not limited to:
1. making the TTY operator saying funny things("PLA go away") 2. Prank calling your friends across the USA via 800 numbers 3. Don't have a voice changer? use the TTY relay operator's voice!
RedBoxChiliPepper and friensds have been doing fun TTY for years!
As much as I love the national sales tax thing, the gray areas would get interesting.
What would be defined as a gas guzzling sports car(luxury) versus a econobox car to get to work/xport family?(necessity if pub. transport is not practical). Could we tax higher on SUVs to get those damn things off the road finally? Okay, there's already the gas guzzler tax.
If no taxes on clothes, would spiffy prom dresses(sure, it's clothing, but not clothing you need) be taxed more, or not at all?
Food: Would fine Russian caviar be taxed or not? Sure, it's food, but it's luxury food. Hey, maybe we can tax unhealthy fast food, and have good-for-you foods be tax free as an incentive.
G4 is the all-videogames channel. Fun to watch Starcade reruns, but their Red vs. Blue ripoff show(forgot the name) is painful to watch.
It's also the "Pringles commercial" channel. I think I'd rather trade G4 in for TechTV(I'm on comcast and for some reason don't get TechTV but all the other digital channels). They have more programming per day compared to G4.
What made Team Fortress ultimately boring for me was the ever-so-few amount of available maps. It seemed 99% of the servers were running the 2fort map and that was it. You had to go out of your way to find custom maps(one of my faves was the gigantic house where you are he size of a mouse).
Sadly not many servers ran alternatives to CTF, like attack/defense. If you had un-regulated classes, every person on defense went engineer and you had to fight your way through 2x(# of ppl on defense) sentry guns. Proved to be rather difficult.
Tribes 2 when i played it often had custom maps I've never seen before that loaded pretty darn fast. The only downsides was that some servers had some HORRIBLE mods(like the shifter mod). Some of those mods required you to reassign class presets and then learn how to play with the souped-up vehicles and/or weapons. Only one person per server usually knew this and was capping the flag over and over while everyone else was still figuring things out.
So far, the best SVG authoring app is Xstudio6. It has easy to use dialogs for just about every single aspect for the SVG 1.1(I think) spec.
Downside is it costs ~$400. A bit pricey for me to goof off with. Thankfully there's Inkscape/sodipodi, but there's no animation support. It's mainly for static images.
SVG is quite powerful and I can't wait until the day someone goes overboard and makes a FPS out of it(which would be an interesting test of Adobe's SVG plugin). C'mon widespread adoption go go go.
Mind you, anything is better than Off The Hook. that show can put you to sleep rather easily. When is Rich the Rebel gonna call this time with a trivial fact about payphones?
I remember about 10 years ago the now-defunct store chain Title Wave(great video rental choices, etc) had a devoted Minidisc music section. I wonder if those albums released on Minidisc are worth anything on ebay now.
With my experiences on orkut, friendster(before they ran out of bandwidth), myspace, and such, LJ is not very social.
Being a "blogger" site, most of the people there post entries just to hear themselves talk. It gets very cliquey, and even though you might get added to someone's friends list, they might not be so open or receptive to your comments.
Hell, you could post a thought-provoking, insightful journal entry and recieve zero comments, while any 19 year old grrl who posts pics of her clevage gets 20 "you're so beautiful!" comments. Don't expect intelligent discussion on LJ like you would see on here or on kuro5hin. LJ is a bit socially xenophobic.
With myspace and friendster, the journalling functions are 99% ignored.
With orkut, I actually see some decent activity in the communities. It's much better structured than myspace or friendster. Now as for meeting new people, that's a different story.
Oh, and don't bother with the livejournal meetups. They are 100% sausage fests.
Slightly OT: There was a record that came with the game Lode Runner that had song "talk to me" by the band mainframe. One of the best new wave synth bands ever. I only have a badly-recorded MP3 of it.
The prospect of sitting around a bunch of teenage kids who haven't quite mastered the art of deoderant, and having an investment of mine sitting around while I go for a smoke.
Nah, I'd rather sit at home and find a good dedicated Internet server, and play in my underwear. No lugging things aronud, no fighting with a busted ntework config at the party.
Sure, there was the social aspect of LAN parties, but sausagefests I would rather not bother with.
Besides, I lust for more FPSes with games that have more players at a time. Take 64 players in WOlfenstein: ET for example. I can't fit 64 players in my house.
I wish all of those prefixes were available in the Google toolbar plugin. Right now it only does plain vanilla searches(which I could use those exts), but it'd be nice in a GUI layout.
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....look like a cross between Tron and Tribes 2 on its lowest graphics settings. I like it!
So they run some sort of Turing test to see if it's a script(computer) or a human clicking those ads?
I think someone just needs to build a better click-script. Like for instance(now don't patent this), have it click at DIFFERENT spots on the same banner spot! yeah! IPO here I come!
o something to help provide better options.
And their options consist of Linux, Linux, and wha, FreeBSD?
You know, I actually bought that game since it looked so bad. Kmart was having an out-of-business sale and I couldn't resist picking it up for $5.
Imagine the reflection I had on myself when I realized I was spending 5 minutes with passing the snowboard level. the darn thing's controls suck and all she could say was "ouch!"
Here's my idea that I don't have any capital for:
Run an Internet backbone that lets all traffic through except for mail. Nope, sorry, we can't transfer mail packets over. You'll have to use some other company.
Okay, so it won't make me tons of money, but think of how stress-free the support staff will be. Or maybe not.
2. I have a lot more free time to keep my apartment clean, cook better and more interesting dinners, and enjoy the company of REAL PEOPLE.
I miss that show, you know, Real People with Sarah Purcell and Skip Stephenson. they had the funniest wackos on ever! They gotta get that on DVD!
Go to phonelosers.net for some info on TTY related pranks, including, but not limited to:
1. making the TTY operator saying funny things("PLA go away")
2. Prank calling your friends across the USA via 800 numbers
3. Don't have a voice changer? use the TTY relay operator's voice!
RedBoxChiliPepper and friensds have been doing fun TTY for years!
As much as I love the national sales tax thing, the gray areas would get interesting.
What would be defined as a gas guzzling sports car(luxury) versus a econobox car to get to work/xport family?(necessity if pub. transport is not practical). Could we tax higher on SUVs to get those damn things off the road finally? Okay, there's already the gas guzzler tax.
If no taxes on clothes, would spiffy prom dresses(sure, it's clothing, but not clothing you need) be taxed more, or not at all?
Food: Would fine Russian caviar be taxed or not? Sure, it's food, but it's luxury food. Hey, maybe we can tax unhealthy fast food, and have good-for-you foods be tax free as an incentive.
Well, considering its cylindrical shape, maybe they can just roll it to wherever they want.
Am I the only person who has been exposed to numerous stereograms in print and on the web and doesn't see anything?
I've tried, and tried and tried, but nothing. All I see is dots and noise.
Is there just a group of people out there that can't see a stereogram if their life depended on it?
If I see a black grid with white lines I see the grays in the intersections, but...
There's a PS2 game where the object is to escape a POW camp in WW2. No Hogan's Heroes like humor though.
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com [badgerbadgerbadger.com] - Badgers replaces with zombies
Looks more like the robots from Kraftwerk's video, only with circular instead of mannequin heads.
Didn't Estes come up with rockets that land with parachutes first though?
Does this have a huge key that you turn that activates on a tripod launcher?
G4 is the all-videogames channel. Fun to watch Starcade reruns, but their Red vs. Blue ripoff show(forgot the name) is painful to watch.
It's also the "Pringles commercial" channel. I think I'd rather trade G4 in for TechTV(I'm on comcast and for some reason don't get TechTV but all the other digital channels). They have more programming per day compared to G4.
What made Team Fortress ultimately boring for me was the ever-so-few amount of available maps. It seemed 99% of the servers were running the 2fort map and that was it. You had to go out of your way to find custom maps(one of my faves was the gigantic house where you are he size of a mouse).
Sadly not many servers ran alternatives to CTF, like attack/defense. If you had un-regulated classes, every person on defense went engineer and you had to fight your way through 2x(# of ppl on defense) sentry guns. Proved to be rather difficult.
Tribes 2 when i played it often had custom maps I've never seen before that loaded pretty darn fast. The only downsides was that some servers had some HORRIBLE mods(like the shifter mod). Some of those mods required you to reassign class presets and then learn how to play with the souped-up vehicles and/or weapons. Only one person per server usually knew this and was capping the flag over and over while everyone else was still figuring things out.
My question is when are upstream speeds going to go up?
So far, the best SVG authoring app is Xstudio6. It has easy to use dialogs for just about every single aspect for the SVG 1.1(I think) spec.
Downside is it costs ~$400. A bit pricey for me to goof off with. Thankfully there's
Inkscape/sodipodi, but there's no animation support. It's mainly for static images.
SVG is quite powerful and I can't wait until the day someone goes overboard and makes a FPS out of it(which would be an interesting test of Adobe's SVG plugin). C'mon widespread adoption go go go.
Mind you, anything is better than Off The Hook. that show can put you to sleep rather easily. When is Rich the Rebel gonna call this time with a trivial fact about payphones?
I have a DaVinci gathering dust in my clost, and it was the worst excuse for a PDA I have ever had. Thankfully, I bought it in clearence.
I could NEVER get the handle of their "cursive"-based handwriting system. Forget it!
I remember about 10 years ago the now-defunct store chain Title Wave(great video rental choices, etc) had a devoted Minidisc music section. I wonder if those albums released on Minidisc are worth anything on ebay now.
With my experiences on orkut, friendster(before they ran out of bandwidth), myspace, and such, LJ is not very social.
Being a "blogger" site, most of the people there post entries just to hear themselves talk. It gets very cliquey, and even though you might get added to someone's friends list, they might not be so open or receptive to your comments.
Hell, you could post a thought-provoking, insightful journal entry and recieve zero comments, while any 19 year old grrl who posts pics of her clevage gets 20 "you're so beautiful!" comments. Don't expect intelligent discussion on LJ like you would see on here or on kuro5hin. LJ is a bit socially xenophobic.
With myspace and friendster, the journalling functions are 99% ignored.
With orkut, I actually see some decent activity in the communities. It's much better structured than myspace or friendster. Now as for meeting new people, that's a different story.
Oh, and don't bother with the livejournal meetups. They are 100% sausage fests.
Slightly OT:
There was a record that came with the game Lode Runner that had song "talk to me" by the band mainframe. One of the best new wave synth bands ever. I only have a badly-recorded MP3 of it.
Hospitals have backup generators. Why not have them there for the essential life-or-death systems?
....IMO.
The prospect of sitting around a bunch of teenage kids who haven't quite mastered the art of deoderant, and having an investment of mine sitting around while I go for a smoke.
Nah, I'd rather sit at home and find a good dedicated Internet server, and play in my underwear. No lugging things aronud, no fighting with a busted ntework config at the party.
Sure, there was the social aspect of LAN parties, but sausagefests I would rather not bother with.
Besides, I lust for more FPSes with games that have more players at a time. Take 64 players in WOlfenstein: ET for example. I can't fit 64 players in my house.
I wish all of those prefixes were available in the Google toolbar plugin. Right now it only does plain vanilla searches(which I could use those exts), but it'd be nice in a GUI layout.