I've got Comcast. From what I understand, ESPN is strong-arming cable companies to include other channels(whether you want em or not) in cable packages, otherwise they terminate contracts. Hence, no "a la carte" package systems for cable subscribers.
If Comcast buys out Disney, hence, ESPN, would I see a reduction in rates since they own them?
It wasn't Dactyl nightmare that I played, but it was some other VR game at a local arcade.
The game was very boring. It basically consisted of you standing on this conveyor belt, shooting at whatever you could in the sky. I accdientally shot my co-player a couple of times.
It wasn't worth the money at all. The arcade that had it shut down(they only had 2 units). This was around 1996.
As for Mondo 2000, I had several issues. in hindsight, it was a rather bland magazine. Too many Ana-Voog like things in it(she was in the mag), and was just too weird to take seriously. If you want stories on weird performance art, I guess that is the magazine to read.
Adult film star. C'mon. Get paid to have hot nasty sex with beautiful women? Nothing beats that. After the workday is over, you don't care to go out to public places to meet ladies.
What I would do to be Peter North(not Matt Ramsey) for a month.
From what I heard, Shrub had the full source to ET(prior to this story). They made some mods here and there, making it into a really fun game. The "push" option to get other players out of your way is very handy. Double jumping has made some maps more interesting(making sniping more fun).
If it weren't for so many servers running Shrub(and more importantly, new maps), I wouldn't be playing ET for 2 hours every night.
Friendster was cool for about a month, then it was realized their webservers are now 10 times slower than Slashdot.
Myspace, being almost the same as friendster sudenly became popular, while their downtime was significantly less than Friendster's.
My question is once you setup your cliques of friends, then what? Their journaling feature seems to be widely unused, and, uh, all the attractive women on there are "in a relationship"
We drive tanker trucks full of sand across into Baghdad, and if those get hit by RPGs, no big deal.
The secret is, we carry the oil in boring, nonimportant trucks behind them. Use ambulances or something. Once the tanker truck tumbles over, the insurgents will celebrate, whatever only to realize the trucks they didn't care about was carrying the precious fuel.
Okay, so here's probably the first considerable GTA-like game here on our hands.
1. First off, the game has no map like GTA and countless other games. You rely on the vehicle's turn signals to get you from A to B. This is flawed since sometimes it leads you to the wrong way down streets. And in London, traffic seems to average 10 miles/hour
2. There is an incredibly steep learning curve. I had to look on the web to find out if I held down three buttons, I could auto-target thugs and maybe survive. The frist mission where you go up against guys in that warehouse is VERY difficult. You get shot a couple times and it's all over unless you lean against the wall in time. I never got past the mission after that. (i gave up)
The game attempts to be better than GTA, and fails miserably. WIth GTA you had a good learning curve, and all the freedom you want. It even gave you nice non-obtrusive hints on the screen to guide you along. The Getaway had no such thing.
Now True Crime: Streets of LA is a worthy GTA clone. It's not too hard, and I would say the driving-related missions are faster paced than GTA, with quite a few more controls at your grasp.
I'm just feeling lucky that ALL(yes ALL) of the Tomb of the Cybermen episodes were restored. It seemed like the best story that was lost forever.
With the Dalek Master plan, there's only 9 more episodes to go before that's recovered. 5 and 10 are intact, but aren't very interesting since you're only getting a fraction of the story.
As for "The Moonbase", it was a horrible story. The special effects were very 1950s-esque right down to the Cybermen's saucer that looked like a dinner plate. Nowhere near as cool as the Invasion, where most of the episodes of that are intact.
C'mon people, start searching your basements for more DW episodes.
Why not use several methods to determine if there's a commercial?
1. The blackout interval. Sometimes though, like on Frasier there's blackouts during the program.
2. The audio levels
3. Closed captioning. Are commercials closed captioned? I haven't goofed off with CC settings for a while. My advent tv seems to have several of them.
4. network bug detection.
Perhaps using a combination of the 4 above can do perfect commercial skippage. Then have it make a small database of which times it skipped commercials a day/week before to give it a general guideline on when to do it again.
Take your anti-spam tech and use it towards tv commercials.
One coffee shop I go to, A Fine Grind, has free Wireless(b) AND ethernet ports. I love it. The internet access there is flaky sometimes, but has worked for me each time.
Another cofee shop, The Spyhouse, has an Airport on it. they have an SSID of "spyhouse" and a password of "coffee".
It works fine on Macs, but everyone I talked to with a PC coudln't get it to work due to a password. One linux user reported getting it to work.
My question for Spyhouse is WHY have a frickin' password in the first place? Maybe they are just biased towards macs. No following the KISS principle. Needless to say, they don't get my business. Not worth the hassle.
As for your wireless routers, don't use A or G. I have yet to meet one person with either of those cards. Stick with b, which will save explaining to your customers why their "wireless card" won't work with your 802.11a/g equipment.
The one I was thinking of pops up in movies all the time. It sounds like... "yeeeuuuuarrrrgh!". There's a bit of a bucket brigade sound to it, and any time someone falls down a cliff, off a mountain, or down something really deep(ie, lots of distance), that sound is uttered. I think it's in Star Wars as well.
Anyone remember it? May have been in Cliffhanger too.
As soon as MS implements the pop-up blocker, several places like doubleclick,etc will sue MS. Why? MS has the most popular browser, and with the masses using the pop-up manager that would be with IE, 95%(or whatever the browser share IE has) of their business visibility will be gone.
I would love to have 7 USB(version 2) ports. Having hubs and such to incrase the # of USB ports causes headaches. They are all going to eventually reach the system anyway.
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I always thought those "white pages" and "yellow pages" Internet directory books were funny. With the ever-so-changing web, you would end up with a book containing a bunch of URLs to nonexistant pages within a few months. Why bother with such a book when a search engine would do?
Oh yeah, marketing. Of course, you could just make annual editions of internet "yellow pages" with corrected links, etc.
It's like going to the mailbox outside the post office to mail a letter.
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In Minnesota, the attourney for that commercial is "Woods and Thompson". With that buzzer-like musical bit.
All the music videos moved to VH1 Classic and a few others.
Now if VH-1 Classic offered an online video download service(that I can save & replay anytime I want, in a non-proprietary format), I would get that in a heartbeat. Imagine being able to get all the videos from $OBSCURE-NEW-WAVE-BAND.
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I've got Comcast. From what I understand, ESPN is strong-arming cable companies to include other channels(whether you want em or not) in cable packages, otherwise they terminate contracts. Hence, no "a la carte" package systems for cable subscribers.
If Comcast buys out Disney, hence, ESPN, would I see a reduction in rates since they own them?
No, the sadder thing is when I asked about the Cap'N showing kids how to do "crunch ups", and getting several replies confirming the rumor.
It wasn't Dactyl nightmare that I played, but it was some other VR game at a local arcade.
The game was very boring. It basically consisted of you standing on this conveyor belt, shooting at whatever you could in the sky. I accdientally shot my co-player a couple of times.
It wasn't worth the money at all. The arcade that had it shut down(they only had 2 units). This was around 1996.
As for Mondo 2000, I had several issues. in hindsight, it was a rather bland magazine. Too many Ana-Voog like things in it(she was in the mag), and was just too weird to take seriously. If you want stories on weird performance art, I guess that is the magazine to read.
Adult film star. C'mon. Get paid to have hot nasty sex with beautiful women? Nothing beats that. After the workday is over, you don't care to go out to public places to meet ladies.
What I would do to be Peter North(not Matt Ramsey) for a month.
hotmail, yahoo, any service that provides free email, etc should have the "what's the word?" security thing.
You know, the quiz that asks you what the distorted word is.
Have this required for EVERY time you want to send email. No fucking exceptions.
Would that stem spam a bit? I know not completely, but would it put a small dent in it?
From what I heard, Shrub had the full source to ET(prior to this story). They made some mods here and there, making it into a really fun game. The "push" option to get other players out of your way is very handy. Double jumping has made some maps more interesting(making sniping more fun).
If it weren't for so many servers running Shrub(and more importantly, new maps), I wouldn't be playing ET for 2 hours every night.
Friendster was cool for about a month, then it was realized their webservers are now 10 times slower than Slashdot.
Myspace, being almost the same as friendster sudenly became popular, while their downtime was significantly less than Friendster's.
My question is once you setup your cliques of friends, then what? Their journaling feature seems to be widely unused, and, uh, all the attractive women on there are "in a relationship"
Don't we learn anything from movies?
We drive tanker trucks full of sand across into Baghdad, and if those get hit by RPGs, no big deal.
The secret is, we carry the oil in boring, nonimportant trucks behind them. Use ambulances or something. Once the tanker truck tumbles over, the insurgents will celebrate, whatever only to realize the trucks they didn't care about was carrying the precious fuel.
Okay, so here's probably the first considerable GTA-like game here on our hands.
1. First off, the game has no map like GTA and countless other games. You rely on the vehicle's turn signals to get you from A to B. This is flawed since sometimes it leads you to the wrong way down streets. And in London, traffic seems to average 10 miles/hour
2. There is an incredibly steep learning curve. I had to look on the web to find out if I held down three buttons, I could auto-target thugs and maybe survive. The frist mission where you go up against guys in that warehouse is VERY difficult. You get shot a couple times and it's all over unless you lean against the wall in time. I never got past the mission after that. (i gave up)
The game attempts to be better than GTA, and fails miserably. WIth GTA you had a good learning curve, and all the freedom you want. It even gave you nice non-obtrusive hints on the screen to guide you along. The Getaway had no such thing.
Now True Crime: Streets of LA is a worthy GTA clone. It's not too hard, and I would say the driving-related missions are faster paced than GTA, with quite a few more controls at your grasp.
I'm just feeling lucky that ALL(yes ALL) of the Tomb of the Cybermen episodes were restored. It seemed like the best story that was lost forever.
With the Dalek Master plan, there's only 9 more episodes to go before that's recovered. 5 and 10 are intact, but aren't very interesting since you're only getting a fraction of the story.
As for "The Moonbase", it was a horrible story. The special effects were very 1950s-esque right down to the Cybermen's saucer that looked like a dinner plate. Nowhere near as cool as the Invasion, where most of the episodes of that are intact.
C'mon people, start searching your basements for more DW episodes.
And that pisses me off to no end. I'm hard core Technic, and there are no Technic-themed sets coming out any more.
IIRC .ZIP files were stored in plaintext, so you could easily unlock it with viewing it in a hex editor.
...and archive.org tries to archive it? Will it go into an infinite loop,or just have 2 copies of the interweb?
Perhaps because America buys a lot more Toyotas and Hondas than Japan does? Then it would make sense to have a factory here.
Why not use several methods to determine if there's a commercial?
1. The blackout interval. Sometimes though, like on Frasier there's blackouts during the program.
2. The audio levels
3. Closed captioning. Are commercials closed captioned? I haven't goofed off with CC settings for a while. My advent tv seems to have several of them.
4. network bug detection.
Perhaps using a combination of the 4 above can do perfect commercial skippage. Then have it make a small database of which times it skipped commercials a day/week before to give it a general guideline on when to do it again.
Take your anti-spam tech and use it towards tv commercials.
One coffee shop I go to, A Fine Grind, has free Wireless(b) AND ethernet ports. I love it. The internet access there is flaky sometimes, but has worked for me each time.
Another cofee shop, The Spyhouse, has an Airport on it. they have an SSID of "spyhouse" and a password of "coffee".
It works fine on Macs, but everyone I talked to with a PC coudln't get it to work due to a password. One linux user reported getting it to work.
My question for Spyhouse is WHY have a frickin' password in the first place? Maybe they are just biased towards macs. No following the KISS principle. Needless to say, they don't get my business. Not worth the hassle.
As for your wireless routers, don't use A or G. I have yet to meet one person with either of those cards. Stick with b, which will save explaining to your customers why their "wireless card" won't work with your 802.11a/g equipment.
This is not the scream I was thinking of.
The one I was thinking of pops up in movies all the time. It sounds like... "yeeeuuuuarrrrgh!". There's a bit of a bucket brigade sound to it, and any time someone falls down a cliff, off a mountain, or down something really deep(ie, lots of distance), that sound is uttered. I think it's in Star Wars as well.
Anyone remember it? May have been in Cliffhanger too.
My prediction:
As soon as MS implements the pop-up blocker, several places like doubleclick,etc will sue MS. Why? MS has the most popular browser, and with the masses using the pop-up manager that would be with IE, 95%(or whatever the browser share IE has) of their business visibility will be gone.
Hopefully, it will be laughed out of court.
Is there a quick and dirty Windows utility that will let me batch tag MP3s?
:)
For every MP3 I get that has no URL tag put in, I just put in my website name. A little bit of free advertising
More goatsex links...
I would love to have 7 USB(version 2) ports. Having hubs and such to incrase the # of USB ports causes headaches. They are all going to eventually reach the system anyway.
I always thought those "white pages" and "yellow pages" Internet directory books were funny. With the ever-so-changing web, you would end up with a book containing a bunch of URLs to nonexistant pages within a few months. Why bother with such a book when a search engine would do?
Oh yeah, marketing. Of course, you could just make annual editions of internet "yellow pages" with corrected links, etc.
It's like going to the mailbox outside the post office to mail a letter.
In Minnesota, the attourney for that commercial is "Woods and Thompson". With that buzzer-like musical bit.
All the music videos moved to VH1 Classic and a few others.
Now if VH-1 Classic offered an online video download service(that I can save & replay anytime I want, in a non-proprietary format), I would get that in a heartbeat. Imagine being able to get all the videos from $OBSCURE-NEW-WAVE-BAND.
Cheap
Non-proprietary
Wide selection
Pick 2.
In the US, where most people are still on dialup, how can anyone reasonably expect that people are going to download tens of megabytes of patches?
Maybe people should catch up with the times and get broadband(dsl || cable).