I watched a show about those things on TV. They went through a half dozen brands of those plate covers and showed how police get the plate numbers anyway.
For example just because your plate isn't distinguishable in the image doesn't mean it's indistinguishable when the image has been inversed! Pretty cool stuff. "for some reason" light gray on white is easier to read than black on dark gray.;)
Well, it at least works on really old beat-to-hell skulls. I watched the show "Nefertiti resurrected" on Discovery this past sunday and it was pretty cool, they scanned in the skull, gave it some meat, for an added flair they added her headdress and voila! looked just like the famous bust. very cool.
How do the automated tellers work with R or NC-17 movies? A couple years ago you could have said "Well, if they have a credit card they must be over 18" but don't they have credit carts now for kids? You basically give your children a card on your credit card's account with a predetermined spending limit of, say, $100 and off they go!
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This isn't Demolition Man. Arnold can't run for president as he wasn't born in the United States. He can, however, run for "lesser" offices.
Actually on that topic, here's something no one talks about that I'm curious about: I'm in the same situation as the original poster (sit in front of a PC 10 hours a day) but unlike him I'm still under weight. I try to take walks on my lunch break and when I can stand to I'll exercise after work. But I'm pretty wimpy, all things considered.
Anyway, being under weight, I've considered buying some weight-gainer stuff. (I've been ~130lbs since I was 16. I'm 24 now.) But since I sit on my ass for a minimum of 10 hours a day and work out for a twentieth of that time, I figure weight gainer wouldn't help me gain weight *and* stay in shape.
So for those that exercise regularly, what keeps you from saying "aw, fuckit. I'll exercise tomorrow instead."? How do you keep motivated to do it?
And for those that might be in my position, how do you go about healthily gaining weight? What (online?) resources have helped you have a healthy diet that will help you gain weight (slowly or otherwise)?
I wonder what kind of rap it would come up with if I were to pipe in my latest PERL/Python/Java/C++ program.;)
I'll bet it could do COBOL pretty well, as the creation of COBOL was to make easily readable code...
I would say, rather, that AOL is an unhealthy company. (oh wait, I did.)
Meaning that they must adapt to continue, as of course they are all too keenly aware. They must figure out a way to make themselves useful to those with broadband. This has already been done with their ads for "AOL Broadband".
Unfortunately, AFAIK, you have to pay your $40 to the cable company and then pay your $20 to AOL for an AOL subscription, so they would need to justify that added cost to new customers, which won't be easy since $40 is a rediculous cost in my mind to begin with. Battle the "I'm already online, what do I need AOL for?" mentality.
Ideally they would use their Time/Warner connection to become the default connection to Time/Warner-owned cable companies (which presumably exist).
AOL isn't going anywhere any time soon. If AOL has 30M customers, I'm willing to bet that 28M of them are casual internet users happy with dial-up and not interested in losing their @aol.com email accounts ("no one will be able to find me again! oh dear!").
That's been said a million times since Mozilla went 1.0 and AOL announced it was switching to Netscape. The truth is that first of all, AOL is an unhealthy company that is quickly becoming obsolete. Secondly, for those that are in the far-off world of dial-up and are the users to consider AOL as a snazzy way to access the internet, most of them have been using AOL for quite some time now and are in no rush to go upgrading to the latest greatest version. They're simply not the tech-savvy type.
One of my close friends related to me his situation with his mother. She's on AOL 3.0. three-point-oh. She's afraid upgrading will lose her bookmarks or settings or something. Wow.
So sure, 30 Million AOL subscribers. How many of those will be running AOL 8+? How many will revolt at the change and open IE instead?
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Did anyone else feel this article was more like a really long blog entry or something? One big vomit of poorly contrived opinions?
Though what is said about IE7 is interesting. It looks like Microsoft will be doing a Mozilla with its browser. (Rewriting it from the ground up and taking an assload of time to do it.)
Which implies to me that right now is the hump-time for alternate browsers. In the gap between now and "MS Windows 2006" kicks off the newest "hey now we've integrated all the OSS features we found on the net!" version of IE that puts everyone back to the drawing board as far as "why we should continue" / "how can we improve" etc., browsers like Mozilla/Netscape and Opera will have a very good window for promoting their wares.
Anyway, wtf was up with all the *seriously* tedious browser "roles"? Can anyone that read that crap tell me which one was referred to as "Innocent Victim of Brutal Murder"? "Sympathetic Outsider"? or even "Tragically Misunderstood Prophet"?! Though "Senile Evil Dinosaur Usurper", while convoluted and missing appropriate hyphenation, fits. But damn that got old quick.
If I want a book/magazine/etc. go to Books-A-Million or something, grab a (book|magazine), head over to their coffeeshop, and sit around for an hour digesting whatever seems interesting. If it's good then I'll probably buy it. Otherwise I just had a nice tasty coffee and some up-to-date reading.
How is this any different from taking a photo of a couple pages? In theory my method is worse since I fully digest short volumes while there, whereas these camera guys are getting crappy photos of magazines. Big whoop.
Regarding the 40 hours per week thing, I don't know if this is really the same thing (maybe I should go squeeze for some money!), but at my old job they required you to work 45 hours a week minimum.
that 45 hours had to be 100% billed to a client. if there was any time you couldn't bill to a client (like, say, a company meeting) you had to stay late to make up the time.
This being my first job out of college, I emailed my school's Career Services department. She replied back saying that it depended on the contract type. You can be Salaried and still get overtime, or you can be salaried and essentially work as a contractor where you're expected to work until the job gets done.:/
Networking is important, but only if you've got something to do with the computers. Meaning: Make sure the games you play are ones that don't charge licensing fees for events like this.
Some friends of mine put on a very small role-playing convention every year. We brought in six PCs then asked several gaming companies to supply some video games and/or promotions (e.g. posters, etc.) for our games.
Happily we got a response from a couple, and even a few kick-ass games we'd never heard of (For example, a game called Shogo was a gift from one company a couple years ago and even now people flock to it at our little convention. fun game. give it a shot.)
Then there was Blizzard.
Not only did they not send us any posters or 'gimmes' to paper the walls with, they sent us a letter saying that unless we paid them $1,000 (per day?? i forget now) we weren't allowed to play any of their games (e.g. StarCraft, even though the damn thing was like 6 years old), and they would "pursue legal action" against us if they found we had played without paying.
Our convention in total comprised roughly 200 people with maybe a dozen people actually playing video games. Even those people were just goofing off until the next round of events started up.:P
Has everyone forgotten that they showed "words can't describe..." trailers for this game at last year's E3? It even won Best of Show and it's still not out a year later! Here's the info on that. Is D3 actually coming out this time, or is this another Duke Nukem Forever?;)
See if you start up computer clubs for these bright-eyed youngsters they'll start thinking about careers in the field, which will create more job market competition for _ME_, so... yeah... Just forget the whole thing, OK?.. Great... Glad we had this little chat.
By the way, you haven't seen my red Swingline lying around anywhere, have you?
That's a good question, though I'd take the more generic approach: It seems like today the major printer manufacturers are doing all they can to screw you on ink prices. Surely someone has already done the research for what printer manufacturers *don't* suck; which ones specifically design their printers to make it easy to refill their cartridges, etc... anyone wanna suggest one?;)
Just put in "UK" as your state. It looks like most everyone else is doing that as well.. (11 entries)... the problem is figuring out whether they converted their uk money to us money before they put it in. I would assume they hadn't since, well, why bother?
I was "let go" at the beginning of April, but since they felt bad about doing so they offered to pay me until the end of the month--which kicks ass by the way.
I had already set up several interviews when I found out I was being let go and one of them panned out. My starting date for my new job is May 1st, so I essentially won't even have a day without pay, but I will have had a month without a job.
If you're specifically interested in avoiding Star Wars news, simply turn them off in your preferences. You'll never see another SW spoiler on/.!;)
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About a month ago a friend of mine told me about another multiplayer GTA: called GDE GTA3 Multiplayer (called GGM)
I haven't tried this Multi-Theft Auto nor have I tried the other one, but this is what one guy said on the GGM website (so uh.. it might be biased):
MTA is good but it is SO far behind GGM. It crashes LOADS, has much slower net code, the interface is big, "clunky and under simplify's everything! I have a LAN every 4-8 weeks where somwhere in the region of 60 people come, using MTA last time.. there were 30 seperate games, 1 of which ra succesfully with no crashes after 10mins. Using GGM we had 2 (Yes, TWO) games, 30 each (or there abouts) and ran fine for EVERY person there bar 1 (Who's PC couldn't cope) for 2 HOURS.
Need I say more...
And THAT gentlemen is why I can't wait for the next release of GGM.
Simon
P.S. Im not saying 0.3b MTA wont be as good.... It's just no way near ready yet.. They have been saying it'll be ready "soon" for WEEKS.. Also they seem to be implementing the less important stuff first (Like capture the Whoppie) which although fun, wont fix all the crashes and the V. Slow coding.
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For example just because your plate isn't distinguishable in the image doesn't mean it's indistinguishable when the image has been inversed! Pretty cool stuff. "for some reason" light gray on white is easier to read than black on dark gray. ;)
Well, it at least works on really old beat-to-hell skulls. I watched the show "Nefertiti resurrected" on Discovery this past sunday and it was pretty cool, they scanned in the skull, gave it some meat, for an added flair they added her headdress and voila! looked just like the famous bust. very cool.
where do I sign up? ;)
oh wait... lol.
How do the automated tellers work with R or NC-17 movies? A couple years ago you could have said "Well, if they have a credit card they must be over 18" but don't they have credit carts now for kids? You basically give your children a card on your credit card's account with a predetermined spending limit of, say, $100 and off they go!
This isn't Demolition Man. Arnold can't run for president as he wasn't born in the United States. He can, however, run for "lesser" offices.
Anyway, being under weight, I've considered buying some weight-gainer stuff. (I've been ~130lbs since I was 16. I'm 24 now.) But since I sit on my ass for a minimum of 10 hours a day and work out for a twentieth of that time, I figure weight gainer wouldn't help me gain weight *and* stay in shape.
So for those that exercise regularly, what keeps you from saying "aw, fuckit. I'll exercise tomorrow instead."? How do you keep motivated to do it?
And for those that might be in my position, how do you go about healthily gaining weight? What (online?) resources have helped you have a healthy diet that will help you gain weight (slowly or otherwise)?
#2 looks like a sumo wrestler to me :)
I wonder what kind of rap it would come up with if I were to pipe in my latest PERL/Python/Java/C++ program. ;)
I'll bet it could do COBOL pretty well, as the creation of COBOL was to make easily readable code...
So.... what's wrong with mouthwash?
What about Adobe InDesign? Why not use it?
Meaning that they must adapt to continue, as of course they are all too keenly aware. They must figure out a way to make themselves useful to those with broadband. This has already been done with their ads for "AOL Broadband".
Unfortunately, AFAIK, you have to pay your $40 to the cable company and then pay your $20 to AOL for an AOL subscription, so they would need to justify that added cost to new customers, which won't be easy since $40 is a rediculous cost in my mind to begin with. Battle the "I'm already online, what do I need AOL for?" mentality.
Ideally they would use their Time/Warner connection to become the default connection to Time/Warner-owned cable companies (which presumably exist). AOL isn't going anywhere any time soon. If AOL has 30M customers, I'm willing to bet that 28M of them are casual internet users happy with dial-up and not interested in losing their @aol.com email accounts ("no one will be able to find me again! oh dear!").
One of my close friends related to me his situation with his mother. She's on AOL 3.0. three-point-oh. She's afraid upgrading will lose her bookmarks or settings or something. Wow.
So sure, 30 Million AOL subscribers. How many of those will be running AOL 8+? How many will revolt at the change and open IE instead?
In other news
Did anyone else feel this article was more like a really long blog entry or something? One big vomit of poorly contrived opinions?
Though what is said about IE7 is interesting. It looks like Microsoft will be doing a Mozilla with its browser. (Rewriting it from the ground up and taking an assload of time to do it.)
Which implies to me that right now is the hump-time for alternate browsers. In the gap between now and "MS Windows 2006" kicks off the newest "hey now we've integrated all the OSS features we found on the net!" version of IE that puts everyone back to the drawing board as far as "why we should continue" / "how can we improve" etc., browsers like Mozilla/Netscape and Opera will have a very good window for promoting their wares.
Anyway, wtf was up with all the *seriously* tedious browser "roles"? Can anyone that read that crap tell me which one was referred to as "Innocent Victim of Brutal Murder"? "Sympathetic Outsider"? or even "Tragically Misunderstood Prophet"?! Though "Senile Evil Dinosaur Usurper", while convoluted and missing appropriate hyphenation, fits. But damn that got old quick.
If I want a book/magazine/etc. go to Books-A-Million or something, grab a (book|magazine), head over to their coffeeshop, and sit around for an hour digesting whatever seems interesting. If it's good then I'll probably buy it. Otherwise I just had a nice tasty coffee and some up-to-date reading.
How is this any different from taking a photo of a couple pages? In theory my method is worse since I fully digest short volumes while there, whereas these camera guys are getting crappy photos of magazines. Big whoop.
that 45 hours had to be 100% billed to a client. if there was any time you couldn't bill to a client (like, say, a company meeting) you had to stay late to make up the time.
This being my first job out of college, I emailed my school's Career Services department. She replied back saying that it depended on the contract type. You can be Salaried and still get overtime, or you can be salaried and essentially work as a contractor where you're expected to work until the job gets done. :/
Some friends of mine put on a very small role-playing convention every year. We brought in six PCs then asked several gaming companies to supply some video games and/or promotions (e.g. posters, etc.) for our games.
Happily we got a response from a couple, and even a few kick-ass games we'd never heard of (For example, a game called Shogo was a gift from one company a couple years ago and even now people flock to it at our little convention. fun game. give it a shot.)
Then there was Blizzard.
Not only did they not send us any posters or 'gimmes' to paper the walls with, they sent us a letter saying that unless we paid them $1,000 (per day?? i forget now) we weren't allowed to play any of their games (e.g. StarCraft, even though the damn thing was like 6 years old), and they would "pursue legal action" against us if they found we had played without paying.
Our convention in total comprised roughly 200 people with maybe a dozen people actually playing video games. Even those people were just goofing off until the next round of events started up. :P
So be careful.
Funny, I don't remember reading about this three years ago.
probably the guy that posted it! Why else would you mod up an F.P.? ;)
Has everyone forgotten that they showed "words can't describe..." trailers for this game at last year's E3? It even won Best of Show and it's still not out a year later! Here's the info on that. Is D3 actually coming out this time, or is this another Duke Nukem Forever? ;)
By the way, you haven't seen my red Swingline lying around anywhere, have you?
That's a good question, though I'd take the more generic approach: It seems like today the major printer manufacturers are doing all they can to screw you on ink prices. Surely someone has already done the research for what printer manufacturers *don't* suck; which ones specifically design their printers to make it easy to refill their cartridges, etc... anyone wanna suggest one? ;)
Just put in "UK" as your state. It looks like most everyone else is doing that as well.. (11 entries)... the problem is figuring out whether they converted their uk money to us money before they put it in. I would assume they hadn't since, well, why bother?
I had already set up several interviews when I found out I was being let go and one of them panned out. My starting date for my new job is May 1st, so I essentially won't even have a day without pay, but I will have had a month without a job.
If you're specifically interested in avoiding Star Wars news, simply turn them off in your preferences. You'll never see another SW spoiler on /.! ;)
I haven't tried this Multi-Theft Auto nor have I tried the other one, but this is what one guy said on the GGM website (so uh.. it might be biased):
MTA is good but it is SO far behind GGM. It crashes LOADS, has much slower net code, the interface is big, "clunky and under simplify's everything! I have a LAN every 4-8 weeks where somwhere in the region of 60 people come, using MTA last time.. there were 30 seperate games, 1 of which ra succesfully with no crashes after 10mins. Using GGM we had 2 (Yes, TWO) games, 30 each (or there abouts) and ran fine for EVERY person there bar 1 (Who's PC couldn't cope) for 2 HOURS.
Need I say more...
And THAT gentlemen is why I can't wait for the next release of GGM.
Simon
P.S. Im not saying 0.3b MTA wont be as good.... It's just no way near ready yet.. They have been saying it'll be ready "soon" for WEEKS.. Also they seem to be implementing the less important stuff first (Like capture the Whoppie) which although fun, wont fix all the crashes and the V. Slow coding.
Of course, since you posted on this topic as yourself, your moderation points were removed from his post. So good job. ;)