Instead of paying a buck to figure out the name of the song you just heard on the radio.. you could try calling the station and asking. I have called a local station a few times in the past and they've been more then happy to tell me the name of a song they just played.
You could try their website as well, a lot of stations are putting their playlists up on their sites now; as long as you have a good idea of when the song was played it should not be to hard to figure it out.
And of course as others have mentioned, the almighty Google. I just can not see anyone paying a buck to figure out a song title.
Build a replacement and fix Hubble either around the same time or in the near future and have two working space telescopes for scientists to use.
Yes, I know.. money.
Well, not exactly; but day dreaming in my high school classes I came up with the idea for an operating system coded just with gamers in mind.
I had not thought about Linux, I really did not know much about it at the time (still do not). But my idea was basically an operating system that was totally optimized for games, no fancy GUI just a simple menu system for launching a few programs and games.
It lingered with me for some time, but ultimately I moved on to engineering as a career path and just left the computer world as a hobby. Could be really cool, hope to see this sometime in the future.
Yes, it would be much cheaper to just send a guy there, have him put some soil in a tube and shake it and let him die. And I'm more then certain we could find some young Emo guy to do it.
But why do it that way? Save money? Sure. That's just not what Americans want to hear about
Why not wait until we actually have proof that we could live and produce oxygen and food there. Start sending supply missions, which would be difficult, you'd want them to be as close together as possible; and just how do you do that?
But send oxygen supplies, food, tools, and materials to build a structure to live in. Then, once you have all that on the planet, send a group to go up there and put it all together. Instant colony.
Bringing the grand total to four after Jackson remakes it. That's not even including 'King Kong Lives' or 'King Kong vs. Godzilla'; and let's not forget all the rip off titles.
In my personal opinion I think Jackson has done an outstanding job with the Lord of the Rings movies. Fan boys can gripe all they want, but let's seem them do something of the same calibur (given they had three hundred million dollars to spend some probably could). I really hope to see 'The Hobbit' made, and wish Jackson would drop this King Kong remake and do it sooner rather then later. I predict Kong will flop, New Line will reconsider their choice in director, and in turn 'The Hobbit' will suffer.
I've never understood why this country can't figure out a way to give more funding to schools. Yes, sappy cliche ahead: Our children are our future. Period. It's a fact, why do we fret about spending money on their educations? Better yet, why does the goverment fret? I'm not a parent, but I have enough sense to understand we shouldn't be slacking off in this department.
I received a good education through our public schools, and since I graduated I've heard and seen nothing but how the system is going down the hole. And why? Money. Where does it all go? We pay billions of dollars a year in taxes as a country and yet our schools can't get the five grand for a roof repair? I mean come on, that's a little rediculous.
Now as far as computers in schools are concerned, I'm for it. As a tool, computers are excellent in the classroom; they are a great way to get a child to sit down and apply themselves to whatever it is they are doing at the moment. But should computers replace a teacher, ever, no. Teachers have something no computer will ever be able to give a student, and I would really hate to see the day that is lost.
I just don't understand why the money being spent on four hundred and fifty computers can't be used towards teachers and other things a child will need in school. Buy a hundred computers, use the rest where it's important. Out of those four hundred computers, how many will be put in a classroom? Half if the children are lucky?
"At this point, I think that a breakup (into OS, Office, Games, Hardware, and Other) would have made things so much better for us all."
Isn't this the way it is now? I'm trying hard to see where I could be wrong, but I can't.
I don't see why Microsoft can't have WMP bundled with Windows. What's the big problem? It's not as if Windows stops people from downloading an alternative.
Will the 'Troopers' team get to keep all prize money if they should win the 'Make Something Unreal' contest? And maybe another, better question; are they even elegible for the contest considering they have access to the Star Wars content?
It's great that LucasArts has given them permission though, I could never understand why companies such as LucasArts frowned so much on people making stuff like this when it's non-profit and all in good fun. A lot of authors don't want people to write fan fiction stories and the like.. and that never made a lot of sense to me; sure people should be creative and come up with their own original stuff, but sometimes you read something or watch a movie and just want to be creative with the characters and worlds placed in front of you.
I don't see the big hub-bub about the rumored Nvidia and Sony dealings.
But, I personally see no reason why Sony couldn't produce the GPU and develop it in some sort of partnership with Nvidia. I love my PS2 to death, but the graphics were never what they could have been, and now it's just hopelessy aging.
I can really see Sony developing the Playstation 3 after the Xbox, basically a stripped down PC. They'd be fools if they release their next incarnation without a hard drive and network adapter out of the box (something the PS2 should have had, but wasn't a big loss in the long run). If they do go the Xbox route, would it be so hard to believe that they might look to Nvidia for a GPU built around the GF3/4 core with improvments?
Whatever happens, I'm sure it'll be a good system. And as long as they release fun games I'm sold.
Is anyone really complaining that Jason X, or Cast Away doesn't play on their Xbox? I mean.. c'mon, those are hardly movies.
They also fail to say which version of Evil Dead doesn't play, there are what.. four, five releases?
Regardless of all that, I just don't ever play movies on my gaming consoles; I have a nice Sony component DVD player which is is made just for that. And when you can go buy a pretty decent DVD player for under a hundred (and sometimes fifty) bucks.. why put the wear and tear on your system?
The only novels based off of games I've ever enjoyed were the Myst novels.
I was a pretty big fan of the first game during it's time, and when I stumbled across one of the books I couldn't help but pick it up (The book of Ti'ana).
Most other books on games I could never bring myself to do much more then flip through, they just didn't have any depth and felt like the writer put no effort into them at all.
The Myst books are fairly decent reads, even if you weren't a Myst fan they are worth picking up at the library and giving a shot.
I've heard of something like this before, on one of those Animal Planet or Learning Channel shows where they talk about amazing pets or some such.
If I recall correctly it was a cat though, and a day or two before a rather large Earthquake occured the owner of the cat noticed it was acting really strange. They thought it was sick and took the cat to the vet, which concluded that nothing was wrong with the animal except maybe a little stress.
They had one of their experts who theorized that animals such as cats and dogs have a sense for these sorts of things, much like how they also can sense when their owner is depressed and try to give a little extra love to them (don't go there sickos).
It was an interesting theory and one I actually think is at least partially true. Anyone know of any sites that talk about this more?
Remember when 3.5" floppies were still the major media type and you could actually use those AOL discs for something?
What gets me, is now AOL sends that CD you just toss in the garbage to you in a little metal tin. And the address label is printed on the thing so you have to sit there and scrape it off (if your the paranoid type that does that). I haven't taken a second look at an AOL disc in years, the last time I even bothered to open one up was for the DVD case a few came in awhile back (always nice to have a spare).
I had a DVD that was released in 2000 start to lose quality, also I noticed that the layers seemed to be seperating.
I take good care of all my cds and dvds, so I knew it was no fault of mine. I contacted the company who pressed the dvd and they offered to send me a replacement as long as I sent in the original.
I'd have to say the strangest thing I ever found was on a 486 someone gave me. There were seemingly endless folders eached named, and together forming a word in a sentence.
Jack/and/jill/went/up/a/hill as an example. It was almost like the person was trying to write a book like that, like they didn't know about word processors or something.
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Reformed or not, what advice would you give to the budding nerd youth that want to follow in your (and others) footsteps and become a hacker?
That we are getting soft. All these new products that have anti-bactereal stuff in them aren't helping us, in the long run anyway.
It's sad when you see kids afraid of dirt, or people who have to wipe down every little thing before they feel it's clean. Yes, I'm wash myself.. but I don't feel the need to buy every product that 'Kills 99.9% of germs FAST!'
I rarely kid a cold, and when I do my body fights it off without the use of twenty different products. Tylenol, and some good chicken soup are all I need. And yet they say the flu is getting worse by the year.
We're soft, we need to toughen up. Go play in the mud.
The pentagon wants me secrets? Sure no problem.
When I was in school, I use to laugh at the geeks! And I enjoyed it, on a strange primitive level. But guess what, here I am; a bigger geek then they are I would have to guess.
Oh, and this one time.. I killed a kitten! And I enjoyed it! How's that for a secret! Come get me Washington!
brings up quite a few images of Longhorn [google.com] (no, there isn't a "Here's a picture of a bull" here)
Most have 'fake' in the filename.. but still interesting. They look pretty close to the shots from the article too.
It's also featured on the 'products page' as of 1:05am EST.
There is a pretty large graphic link on the side of the page.. no clue if it was recently added or everyone just didn't see it (which I highly doubt).
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Instead of paying a buck to figure out the name of the song you just heard on the radio.. you could try calling the station and asking. I have called a local station a few times in the past and they've been more then happy to tell me the name of a song they just played.
You could try their website as well, a lot of stations are putting their playlists up on their sites now; as long as you have a good idea of when the song was played it should not be to hard to figure it out.
And of course as others have mentioned, the almighty Google.
I just can not see anyone paying a buck to figure out a song title.
Build a replacement and fix Hubble either around the same time or in the near future and have two working space telescopes for scientists to use.
Yes, I know.. money.
throws the whole feel of Google off. The less images the better.
Well, not exactly; but day dreaming in my high school classes I came up with the idea for an operating system coded just with gamers in mind.
I had not thought about Linux, I really did not know much about it at the time (still do not). But my idea was basically an operating system that was totally optimized for games, no fancy GUI just a simple menu system for launching a few programs and games.
It lingered with me for some time, but ultimately I moved on to engineering as a career path and just left the computer world as a hobby. Could be really cool, hope to see this sometime in the future.
But why do it that way? Save money? Sure. That's just not what Americans want to hear about
Why not wait until we actually have proof that we could live and produce oxygen and food there. Start sending supply missions, which would be difficult, you'd want them to be as close together as possible; and just how do you do that?
But send oxygen supplies, food, tools, and materials to build a structure to live in. Then, once you have all that on the planet, send a group to go up there and put it all together. Instant colony.
Yeah, this idea has a lot of problems.. sue me.
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1962)
King Kong (1976)
Bringing the grand total to four after Jackson remakes it. That's not even including 'King Kong Lives' or 'King Kong vs. Godzilla'; and let's not forget all the rip off titles.
In my personal opinion I think Jackson has done an outstanding job with the Lord of the Rings movies. Fan boys can gripe all they want, but let's seem them do something of the same calibur (given they had three hundred million dollars to spend some probably could). I really hope to see 'The Hobbit' made, and wish Jackson would drop this King Kong remake and do it sooner rather then later. I predict Kong will flop, New Line will reconsider their choice in director, and in turn 'The Hobbit' will suffer.
I've been known to be wrong though.
I received a good education through our public schools, and since I graduated I've heard and seen nothing but how the system is going down the hole. And why? Money. Where does it all go? We pay billions of dollars a year in taxes as a country and yet our schools can't get the five grand for a roof repair? I mean come on, that's a little rediculous.
Now as far as computers in schools are concerned, I'm for it. As a tool, computers are excellent in the classroom; they are a great way to get a child to sit down and apply themselves to whatever it is they are doing at the moment. But should computers replace a teacher, ever, no. Teachers have something no computer will ever be able to give a student, and I would really hate to see the day that is lost.
I just don't understand why the money being spent on four hundred and fifty computers can't be used towards teachers and other things a child will need in school. Buy a hundred computers, use the rest where it's important. Out of those four hundred computers, how many will be put in a classroom? Half if the children are lucky?
Gah!
I definitely see the pros to what they have done. Man made viruses could help us fight diseases we don't know how to otherwise.
But really, how do you control something like this once it's released into the wild (human body)? Send more man made viruses after it?
Isn't this the way it is now? I'm trying hard to see where I could be wrong, but I can't.
I don't see why Microsoft can't have WMP bundled with Windows. What's the big problem? It's not as if Windows stops people from downloading an alternative.
Will the 'Troopers' team get to keep all prize money if they should win the 'Make Something Unreal' contest? And maybe another, better question; are they even elegible for the contest considering they have access to the Star Wars content? It's great that LucasArts has given them permission though, I could never understand why companies such as LucasArts frowned so much on people making stuff like this when it's non-profit and all in good fun. A lot of authors don't want people to write fan fiction stories and the like.. and that never made a lot of sense to me; sure people should be creative and come up with their own original stuff, but sometimes you read something or watch a movie and just want to be creative with the characters and worlds placed in front of you.
I don't see the big hub-bub about the rumored Nvidia and Sony dealings.
But, I personally see no reason why Sony couldn't produce the GPU and develop it in some sort of partnership with Nvidia. I love my PS2 to death, but the graphics were never what they could have been, and now it's just hopelessy aging. I can really see Sony developing the Playstation 3 after the Xbox, basically a stripped down PC. They'd be fools if they release their next incarnation without a hard drive and network adapter out of the box (something the PS2 should have had, but wasn't a big loss in the long run). If they do go the Xbox route, would it be so hard to believe that they might look to Nvidia for a GPU built around the GF3/4 core with improvments? Whatever happens, I'm sure it'll be a good system. And as long as they release fun games I'm sold.
Is anyone really complaining that Jason X, or Cast Away doesn't play on their Xbox? I mean.. c'mon, those are hardly movies. They also fail to say which version of Evil Dead doesn't play, there are what.. four, five releases? Regardless of all that, I just don't ever play movies on my gaming consoles; I have a nice Sony component DVD player which is is made just for that. And when you can go buy a pretty decent DVD player for under a hundred (and sometimes fifty) bucks.. why put the wear and tear on your system?
The only novels based off of games I've ever enjoyed were the Myst novels. I was a pretty big fan of the first game during it's time, and when I stumbled across one of the books I couldn't help but pick it up (The book of Ti'ana). Most other books on games I could never bring myself to do much more then flip through, they just didn't have any depth and felt like the writer put no effort into them at all. The Myst books are fairly decent reads, even if you weren't a Myst fan they are worth picking up at the library and giving a shot.
...but will it help get rid of idiots like the parent post here?
I've heard of something like this before, on one of those Animal Planet or Learning Channel shows where they talk about amazing pets or some such.
If I recall correctly it was a cat though, and a day or two before a rather large Earthquake occured the owner of the cat noticed it was acting really strange. They thought it was sick and took the cat to the vet, which concluded that nothing was wrong with the animal except maybe a little stress.
They had one of their experts who theorized that animals such as cats and dogs have a sense for these sorts of things, much like how they also can sense when their owner is depressed and try to give a little extra love to them (don't go there sickos).
It was an interesting theory and one I actually think is at least partially true. Anyone know of any sites that talk about this more?
Remember when 3.5" floppies were still the major media type and you could actually use those AOL discs for something?
What gets me, is now AOL sends that CD you just toss in the garbage to you in a little metal tin. And the address label is printed on the thing so you have to sit there and scrape it off (if your the paranoid type that does that). I haven't taken a second look at an AOL disc in years, the last time I even bothered to open one up was for the DVD case a few came in awhile back (always nice to have a spare).
I had a DVD that was released in 2000 start to lose quality, also I noticed that the layers seemed to be seperating. I take good care of all my cds and dvds, so I knew it was no fault of mine. I contacted the company who pressed the dvd and they offered to send me a replacement as long as I sent in the original.
I'd have to say the strangest thing I ever found was on a 486 someone gave me. There were seemingly endless folders eached named, and together forming a word in a sentence. Jack/and/jill/went/up/a/hill as an example. It was almost like the person was trying to write a book like that, like they didn't know about word processors or something.
Reformed or not, what advice would you give to the budding nerd youth that want to follow in your (and others) footsteps and become a hacker?
The actual Smith line from Dogma is "No Ticket!". See this and more Dogma quotes here.
That we are getting soft. All these new products that have anti-bactereal stuff in them aren't helping us, in the long run anyway. It's sad when you see kids afraid of dirt, or people who have to wipe down every little thing before they feel it's clean. Yes, I'm wash myself.. but I don't feel the need to buy every product that 'Kills 99.9% of germs FAST!' I rarely kid a cold, and when I do my body fights it off without the use of twenty different products. Tylenol, and some good chicken soup are all I need. And yet they say the flu is getting worse by the year. We're soft, we need to toughen up. Go play in the mud.
The pentagon wants me secrets? Sure no problem. When I was in school, I use to laugh at the geeks! And I enjoyed it, on a strange primitive level. But guess what, here I am; a bigger geek then they are I would have to guess. Oh, and this one time.. I killed a kitten! And I enjoyed it! How's that for a secret! Come get me Washington!
Somebody already did but here it is again: [toymax.com] [peedeetoys.com] Radioshack sells the Activision unit in the stores for about $30.
brings up quite a few images of Longhorn [google.com] (no, there isn't a "Here's a picture of a bull" here) Most have 'fake' in the filename.. but still interesting. They look pretty close to the shots from the article too.
It's also featured on the 'products page' as of 1:05am EST. There is a pretty large graphic link on the side of the page.. no clue if it was recently added or everyone just didn't see it (which I highly doubt).