If you had an entire array of these single-photon lights, couldn't it add an eerie glow to an object? Hopefully we can nanoscale these LED's and make things glow eerily.
Finally, something to donate to that doesn't involve fat, starving black children in Africa, or barefooted American folks with a dirt floor and a Dodge Viper in their driveway. Hopefully this charity won't fall prey to the usual enemy of charities, greed.
Maybe if the Zone wasn't a slow, unstable, proprietary system that can only be accessed by loading up large amounts of laggy, mem-leaky software, it would be nice. But I guess Microsoft doesn't want *nix users to access the Zone, eh?
In my experience, portable gaming machines wouldn't be very helpful. Especially having to build one. I'm not so much of a gamer that I'd have to sneak game-time between hours at work, or during lunch, but I have a laptop just in case. It works fine for my portable gaming machine. Even does SNES, Neo Geo, NES, Genesis, and various arcade games!
"The single most important skill is programming itself."
Based on the way I think, I could become a good programmer. People have told me all my life that I'd make a good programmer. But if I don't have a drive to program, all of it is in vain.
Get over it, Feds. Software piracy is a part of life. When you try to sell something that has no material component other than a CD which can pretty much be replicated at will, for outrageous prices and with EULA's so tight they make our balls ache, there's going to be piracy. Blame companies like Microsoft for setting their own prices. $300 for a piece of buggy, crashy software that we HAVE to buy to play many games, or use many popular aps is insane. Live on, pirates.
The series, as a whole, was great. The second movie was one of the best I have ever seen, and still is. I hope the third one is just as good. I'd like to see more of the future war myself, along with battles and stuff that go with the future war. Anyone remember the game Skynet? It was cool for its time, despite the bugs and shitty engine..
It would be great if they had something like a P2P scheme for patches, and new modules. Imagine if even 25% of Linux users took part in it. Always-available high speed files of any type you need.
IRC is home to the largest collection of lamers in the world. It's home to people that do nothing but try to express their sexual virility and looking for porn. But...its fun. IRC is great. I know lots of cool people on IRC, and its going to be morons like flooders, advertisers, etc, etc that ruin it for everyone else. They should be sued.
They should have something that hurts happen to them. Like being forced to tell people all about the other OSes. Or having their prices lowered to be more fair. I mean, $300 for the full version of WindowsXP is bullshit. Everytime they try to pull their usual stunts, the government should make them tell everyone on TV what they've done, why they've done it, and how they're going to fix it.
I'd say if you had a board that can take measurements from the CPU fan and power supply fan, you could use that as a base of measurement, because they can usually tell you how much voltage is coming in. All you'd really have to do is make it update fast enough, and write some 'ware to put it into a graph form...
How will it be enforced? Are we soon going to hear about mass executions in because their government found some MP3s or a zip password cracker on their computers? Will the unlucky criminals be sentenced to jail in those countries, alongside the rapists and murderers?
I'm glad Win95 is moving into the unsupported phase. I'm tired of having to support the range of lamers that call in wanting USB support on Win95 that they've had installed since the year it came out with no upgrades. Does this also mean that the people who still use 95 will be considered criminals if that law passes?
I debated until I was blue in the face in high school biology classes that nerve tissue can regenerate if given the right materials and circumstances. Unfortunately, they were too closed minded to realize that regrowing nerve tissue isn't really that hard.
Wouldn't this be like hindering freedom of the press or something? That's like saying, "If you use our name in daily conversation, we'll sue you." Its almost as bad as companies trying to sue people because they give their products a bad review.
"Look! I think its a bomb!"
"Sure does look like one..seize her!"
Five minutes later.
"There was no bomb in here..WTF?"
"It would have been in there if we hadn't looked!"
See? Valve and Sierra knew what they were releasing. They knew they could either make thousands of hard working, dedicated, skilled programmers, artists, geniuses into either heros or criminals. Back in the day, I actually just copied Half-Life from a friend. But when I started playing things like TFC and Counter-Strike (mods that could have been made illegal by Sierra/Valve if they wanted to), I ran out and bought a copy, because it was cool. I wish I would have pirated Civ 3 now, they're just being stupid about the whole mess. How could they make a profit from it other than by selling Civ3 in other countries at a much higher price than they're selling it here?
Comcast@home was supposed to be available in Norris, TN since about a month or so ago. Is it here yet? Nope, they seem to just be dragging their feet. Every week I stop by a Comcast kiosk at a local mall, and they tell me the same thing, "Nope. Not there yet," with no indication of when it will be here. This means I'll likely be waiting three more months to get it...
You know why its not really going anywhere? Because there isn't that much innovation anymore. I mean, you have two options for software. Make it yourself, or get someone elses'. If you can dream it up, its probably been done (within reason). So, basically, the need for the software has to overcome the energy consumed in making the software in order for anything to be done. And the energy to acquire the software is becoming less and less as more and more software is produced. Hardware is the same way, only more closed. Not many people have their own chip fabs that could anywhere near compete with the major players in the chip industry.
I wonder how many people are going to try to plug their phones into the ethernet jacks, and wonder why they don't have a dialtone? Either that, or try to force their ethernet cable into a phone jack. Working in tech support for a DSL provider, a good half of the calls I get regarding the ethernet modem have to do with people confusing RJ-11 and RJ-45 ports.
When you buy something, its yours. They can throw licences in your face all they want, they can have lawyers bitch and moan that 'you can't do that,' but the thing is, that unless the CD is programmed to explode when you try to do something with it you aren't supposed to, its not going to stop people. So they should save money and use it to PREVENT stupid mistakes like this instead of trying to cover up their past ones. What can they accomplish by spending thousands/millions on lawyers to sue into oblivion some people? Corporations aren't held to the same laws as individuals, so they shouldn't be able to litigate as individuals.
Thank God..imagine someone trying to sue you because you posted a review of their product on a message board. Imagine someone trying to sue you becaues they didn't want others to find out how crappy their product is. Basically, Message Boards = Circle of Protection Law.
Businesses (read, spammers) will either simply pay people a lot of money to search a lot of words and rank their sites high, or write a script that does it for them. Mainly, its porn sites that do this. For instance, try searching for some innocent word, and you're likely to find a porn site somewhere. While this is definately a step forward in eliminating the problem of catch-pages (pages with many random words to catch search engines), it won't last for long.
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If you had an entire array of these single-photon lights, couldn't it add an eerie glow to an object? Hopefully we can nanoscale these LED's and make things glow eerily.
Finally, something to donate to that doesn't involve fat, starving black children in Africa, or barefooted American folks with a dirt floor and a Dodge Viper in their driveway. Hopefully this charity won't fall prey to the usual enemy of charities, greed.
Maybe if the Zone wasn't a slow, unstable, proprietary system that can only be accessed by loading up large amounts of laggy, mem-leaky software, it would be nice. But I guess Microsoft doesn't want *nix users to access the Zone, eh?
In my experience, portable gaming machines wouldn't be very helpful. Especially having to build one. I'm not so much of a gamer that I'd have to sneak game-time between hours at work, or during lunch, but I have a laptop just in case. It works fine for my portable gaming machine. Even does SNES, Neo Geo, NES, Genesis, and various arcade games!
"The single most important skill is programming itself." Based on the way I think, I could become a good programmer. People have told me all my life that I'd make a good programmer. But if I don't have a drive to program, all of it is in vain.
Get over it, Feds. Software piracy is a part of life. When you try to sell something that has no material component other than a CD which can pretty much be replicated at will, for outrageous prices and with EULA's so tight they make our balls ache, there's going to be piracy. Blame companies like Microsoft for setting their own prices. $300 for a piece of buggy, crashy software that we HAVE to buy to play many games, or use many popular aps is insane. Live on, pirates.
The series, as a whole, was great. The second movie was one of the best I have ever seen, and still is. I hope the third one is just as good. I'd like to see more of the future war myself, along with battles and stuff that go with the future war. Anyone remember the game Skynet? It was cool for its time, despite the bugs and shitty engine..
It would be great if they had something like a P2P scheme for patches, and new modules. Imagine if even 25% of Linux users took part in it. Always-available high speed files of any type you need.
IRC is home to the largest collection of lamers in the world. It's home to people that do nothing but try to express their sexual virility and looking for porn. But...its fun. IRC is great. I know lots of cool people on IRC, and its going to be morons like flooders, advertisers, etc, etc that ruin it for everyone else. They should be sued.
They should have something that hurts happen to them. Like being forced to tell people all about the other OSes. Or having their prices lowered to be more fair. I mean, $300 for the full version of WindowsXP is bullshit. Everytime they try to pull their usual stunts, the government should make them tell everyone on TV what they've done, why they've done it, and how they're going to fix it.
I'd say if you had a board that can take measurements from the CPU fan and power supply fan, you could use that as a base of measurement, because they can usually tell you how much voltage is coming in. All you'd really have to do is make it update fast enough, and write some 'ware to put it into a graph form...
How will it be enforced? Are we soon going to hear about mass executions in because their government found some MP3s or a zip password cracker on their computers? Will the unlucky criminals be sentenced to jail in those countries, alongside the rapists and murderers?
I'm glad Win95 is moving into the unsupported phase. I'm tired of having to support the range of lamers that call in wanting USB support on Win95 that they've had installed since the year it came out with no upgrades. Does this also mean that the people who still use 95 will be considered criminals if that law passes?
I debated until I was blue in the face in high school biology classes that nerve tissue can regenerate if given the right materials and circumstances. Unfortunately, they were too closed minded to realize that regrowing nerve tissue isn't really that hard.
Wouldn't this be like hindering freedom of the press or something? That's like saying, "If you use our name in daily conversation, we'll sue you." Its almost as bad as companies trying to sue people because they give their products a bad review.
"Look! I think its a bomb!"
"Sure does look like one..seize her!"
Five minutes later.
"There was no bomb in here..WTF?"
"It would have been in there if we hadn't looked!"
See? Valve and Sierra knew what they were releasing. They knew they could either make thousands of hard working, dedicated, skilled programmers, artists, geniuses into either heros or criminals. Back in the day, I actually just copied Half-Life from a friend. But when I started playing things like TFC and Counter-Strike (mods that could have been made illegal by Sierra/Valve if they wanted to), I ran out and bought a copy, because it was cool. I wish I would have pirated Civ 3 now, they're just being stupid about the whole mess. How could they make a profit from it other than by selling Civ3 in other countries at a much higher price than they're selling it here?
Comcast@home was supposed to be available in Norris, TN since about a month or so ago. Is it here yet? Nope, they seem to just be dragging their feet. Every week I stop by a Comcast kiosk at a local mall, and they tell me the same thing, "Nope. Not there yet," with no indication of when it will be here. This means I'll likely be waiting three more months to get it...
You know why its not really going anywhere? Because there isn't that much innovation anymore. I mean, you have two options for software. Make it yourself, or get someone elses'. If you can dream it up, its probably been done (within reason). So, basically, the need for the software has to overcome the energy consumed in making the software in order for anything to be done. And the energy to acquire the software is becoming less and less as more and more software is produced. Hardware is the same way, only more closed. Not many people have their own chip fabs that could anywhere near compete with the major players in the chip industry.
...one of the movies includes such things as imps, cacodemons, cyber demon lords, and lost souls.
I wonder how many people are going to try to plug their phones into the ethernet jacks, and wonder why they don't have a dialtone? Either that, or try to force their ethernet cable into a phone jack. Working in tech support for a DSL provider, a good half of the calls I get regarding the ethernet modem have to do with people confusing RJ-11 and RJ-45 ports.
When you buy something, its yours. They can throw licences in your face all they want, they can have lawyers bitch and moan that 'you can't do that,' but the thing is, that unless the CD is programmed to explode when you try to do something with it you aren't supposed to, its not going to stop people. So they should save money and use it to PREVENT stupid mistakes like this instead of trying to cover up their past ones. What can they accomplish by spending thousands/millions on lawyers to sue into oblivion some people? Corporations aren't held to the same laws as individuals, so they shouldn't be able to litigate as individuals.
Thank God..imagine someone trying to sue you because you posted a review of their product on a message board. Imagine someone trying to sue you becaues they didn't want others to find out how crappy their product is. Basically, Message Boards = Circle of Protection Law.
Businesses (read, spammers) will either simply pay people a lot of money to search a lot of words and rank their sites high, or write a script that does it for them. Mainly, its porn sites that do this. For instance, try searching for some innocent word, and you're likely to find a porn site somewhere. While this is definately a step forward in eliminating the problem of catch-pages (pages with many random words to catch search engines), it won't last for long.
Its a good thing that alien atmosphere can't be slashdotted!