Skip this whole wireless internet thing. I want to donate money to a literacy fund to help the Supreme Court Justices read the Constitution they are supposed to be protecting. Maybe if that's successful we can raise money for Congress and the President too!
The solution to the copyright laws and the intellectual property cartels is simple: Vote. Not just in the major elections, but all the time.
That dick that wants to be your county judge just might springboard his career off your apathy and be the next circuit court justice siding with whoever pays him off.
Fucking care people. Kick people out who take payola. VOTE VOTE VOTE
Mars, cannot hold an atmosphere capable of supporting humans.
Believe it or not, you need GRAVITY for ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. So sci-fi people, give it up. Mars can't even hold water vapor in the atmosphere at the cold temperature it is at now. Warm it up, and it gets even harder.
Dig Dug: Joystick (digital) 4 direction. One button.
Grand Theft Auto Vice City: 13 trillion analog buttons, and 15 analog joysticks (approximation)
Some games are just glorified interactive movies, but the good ones aren't. Remember Dragon's Lair. The amount of coordination necessary for most modern games is prohibitive. I have played video games all my life, and I still have trouble with some, especially games that use the Playstation controller. I have never been able to use 2 finger buttons for each hand with any skill.
Hell, THE JOYSTICKS ARE BUTTONS TOO.
Now that the industry is seen as very profitable, there is a lot more crap then there used to be, and there are a lot more "gamers" that play video games to be cool.
Back in the day, games didn't have endings. Pitfall! had a timer, if you survived 20 min then the game stopped. Your only goal was to get more points. Games were impossible to win, but much easier to play.
I live in rural PA. Amazingly, I have broadband. Yet the closest acces number for AOL is in NEW YORK. Most rural areas have regional carriers that amount to an internet monopoly, and charge AOL prices for no extra content.
And by the way, if you would look in the telephone book of any given city, you would see no shortage of independent companies begging for your patronage. AOL is far short of a monopoly, especially in rural areas.
Maybe the problem isn't the batteries, maybe the problem is what we expect them to do. Sure a laptop that runs Unreal Tournament 2003 at 100 fps is nice, but when was the last time you saw anyone playing it off their battery.
Portable eletronics will always need to be more rugged and less power hungry then their stationary brethern, without exception, no matter how good batteries get. So here is a bright idea.(let me know if this gets too deep for you) How about we stop expecting portable electronics to be as powerful as non-portable electronics?
Sure try to make better batteries, work as hard as you can at it, but keep in mind what Lone Star said to the Druish Princess Vespa: "Take only what you need to survive"
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R. Almost no laptops need any 3D accelerator. Why, on god's green earth, do cell phones need a camera? Why does a PDA need enough hardware to play videogames? Do you buy a cellphone for a camera? Did you go shopping for a portable video game system and say to yourself, "Hey this GBA is pretty cheap and has really good games, but I am looking for something that is 4 times as much and is hard as hell to play games on?"
Opmization is what must prevail. Making one machine that does everything, will not work. Give the people what they need. No one is buying a phone for its camera. They buy a camera for that. Power saved. No one needs to burn a DVD while flying from New York to LA. Power saved.
I mean look at the Game Boy. The first took 4 AAs and lasted 4-6 hours. The Game Boy Color took 2 AAs and lasted 10 hours. The Game Boy Advance takes 2 AA and lasts 15 hours. Batteries have not gotten that much better, but today's Game Boy users are spending 1/8th as much on them.
Programmers need to care about memory and processor usage again; engineers need to care about power consumption again. Do you really think that an mp3 player really needs to take 20MB of space? Power saved.
I think that if you won't donate organs you don't get donated organs. That would change some religious fuckers minds real quick.
The rules would be simple. You get on the list no matter what you do up to age 21, but if you haven't regestered by then, you don't get organs unless you do. AND if you register after age 21 you are not eligible for organs for 2 years after you declare yourself an organ doner. If you are not an organ doner by age 40 you cannot ever recieve a donated organ.
It isn't fair that people who think that it is OK to take someone'e organs are allowed to say that you can't take theirs if the shoe was on the other foot.
Rich people already practically pay for their organs (Look at Mickey Mantle). Why not shift the balance to those that are actually donating.
Sience journalists must be BOTH scientists and writers. In the field I studied, Astrophysics, it is obvious that most journalists don't know the first thing about basic physics, and were probably sent to that American Astronomical Society conference because their editor hates them or lost a Super Bowl bet.
Seriously, people need to know what they are talking about, and almost no science journalists do. Since about half of scientists speak through their ass anyway, you must have writers that can cut through the crap and differentiate between what is real science, and what is some theorist's pipe/wet dream they are using to get funding this week.
Oh yeah, they have to be able to write too. Unfortunately most journalists can't do that either.
We need fucking construction capability in space and we need it now. Forget fucking biospheres, forget fucking boneloss. I want one real fucking orbital CONSTRUCTION SITE. A place where satillites can be made, a place that had a fucking purpose other then to let some fucking astronauts jerk off about how lucky they are that they are IN SPACE. The shuttle has been in service for 20 years and space travel has not progressed one inch because of it.
The ISS is the same as Mir is the same as SkyLab. A fucking lump of metal that serves next to no purpose and chews up money. SkyLab's time is over. It is time for orbiting platforms; it is time for earth/moon travel; it is time to find what use we can put the moon to. Then MAYBE there will be a point to going to mars, or even to launching the shuttle.
Those 7 astronauts died for no fucking reason whatsoever. And that pisses me off.
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what I am saying is if you can't do this, then don't link the site. I just think it is unfair to have your website shut down, because you can't afford to show everyone the stuff you're doing.
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Given the ease at which GeoCities bandwidth limits are exceeded, maybe Slashdot could host a mirror to link to from here. This would be in case the person in question needs his site for the rest of the month.
I really think this is starting to become a problem for people doing really cool stuff who don't have the money for a really good webserver. If slashdot thinks that a 20MB site is cool enough to post, surely Slashdot has that 20 MB of space on the its webserver to donate for a limited time. This would ensure that people like me can get to the site and people who do the cool shit aren't punished for doing cool shit.
I think that they ought to tighten security, so that no one who purchases a game will ever be able to play it. Then you could put a copy of astroids 1000 times on a CD write "Unreal Tournament 2003" on the cover and no one would ever know! And if someone did manage to crack it, you could then tout the flawlessness of your new security measures as it tricked the pirates into making a thousand copies of asteriods!
Slashdot Mirror
Skip this whole wireless internet thing. I want to donate money to a literacy fund to help the Supreme Court Justices read the Constitution they are supposed to be protecting. Maybe if that's successful we can raise money for Congress and the President too!
Leave no politician behind!
SetupWeasel
www.setupweasel.com
Only if they're used for food.
Oh the succulent BLF (bacon, lettuce, fetus) sandwhich.
MMMMMMMMMMM...
SW
The solution to the copyright laws and the intellectual property cartels is simple: Vote. Not just in the major elections, but all the time.
That dick that wants to be your county judge just might springboard his career off your apathy and be the next circuit court justice siding with whoever pays him off.
Fucking care people. Kick people out who take payola. VOTE VOTE VOTE
Mars, cannot hold an atmosphere capable of supporting humans.
Believe it or not, you need GRAVITY for ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE. So sci-fi people, give it up. Mars can't even hold water vapor in the atmosphere at the cold temperature it is at now. Warm it up, and it gets even harder.
Sorry to bust everyone's bubble.
L and R buttons on GameCube controller. I believe every button on the ps2 controller has 255 levels of sensitivity.
Buttons aren't just 1 and 0 anymore, and if 0 and 255 isn't exactly "analog" you are splitting hairs. My point is valid.
Dig Dug: Joystick (digital) 4 direction. One button.
Grand Theft Auto Vice City: 13 trillion analog buttons, and 15 analog joysticks (approximation)
Some games are just glorified interactive movies, but the good ones aren't. Remember Dragon's Lair. The amount of coordination necessary for most modern games is prohibitive. I have played video games all my life, and I still have trouble with some, especially games that use the Playstation controller. I have never been able to use 2 finger buttons for each hand with any skill.
Hell, THE JOYSTICKS ARE BUTTONS TOO.
Now that the industry is seen as very profitable, there is a lot more crap then there used to be, and there are a lot more "gamers" that play video games to be cool.
Back in the day, games didn't have endings. Pitfall! had a timer, if you survived 20 min then the game stopped. Your only goal was to get more points. Games were impossible to win, but much easier to play.
You are winning in ESPN football. Up by 3 in the third quarter the opponent throws the ball into the outstretched arms of your cornerback.
TOUCHDOWN!
And in the middle of your glory the screen goes black, and the only thing left to see is:
Waiting to Connect
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14
13
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Holy crap, you mean you'll let me PAY YOU for this? Sign me up!
Everyone that loves video games, bow your heads. Let us pray:
"Please never let anything be like Xbox Live again."
AOL has no local access numbers for.
I live in rural PA. Amazingly, I have broadband. Yet the closest acces number for AOL is in NEW YORK. Most rural areas have regional carriers that amount to an internet monopoly, and charge AOL prices for no extra content.
And by the way, if you would look in the telephone book of any given city, you would see no shortage of independent companies begging for your patronage. AOL is far short of a monopoly, especially in rural areas.
When they see gold all three yell "Mine! Mine! Mine!" and procede to lose all their money to people willing to share.
God help the artists if David Bowie isn't right.
Listen up all y'all. It is time to testify.
Maybe the problem isn't the batteries, maybe the problem is what we expect them to do. Sure a laptop that runs Unreal Tournament 2003 at 100 fps is nice, but when was the last time you saw anyone playing it off their battery.
Portable eletronics will always need to be more rugged and less power hungry then their stationary brethern, without exception, no matter how good batteries get. So here is a bright idea.(let me know if this gets too deep for you) How about we stop expecting portable electronics to be as powerful as non-portable electronics?
Sure try to make better batteries, work as hard as you can at it, but keep in mind what Lone Star said to the Druish Princess Vespa: "Take only what you need to survive"
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R. Almost no laptops need any 3D accelerator. Why, on god's green earth, do cell phones need a camera? Why does a PDA need enough hardware to play videogames? Do you buy a cellphone for a camera? Did you go shopping for a portable video game system and say to yourself, "Hey this GBA is pretty cheap and has really good games, but I am looking for something that is 4 times as much and is hard as hell to play games on?"
Opmization is what must prevail. Making one machine that does everything, will not work. Give the people what they need. No one is buying a phone for its camera. They buy a camera for that. Power saved. No one needs to burn a DVD while flying from New York to LA. Power saved.
I mean look at the Game Boy. The first took 4 AAs and lasted 4-6 hours. The Game Boy Color took 2 AAs and lasted 10 hours. The Game Boy Advance takes 2 AA and lasts 15 hours. Batteries have not gotten that much better, but today's Game Boy users are spending 1/8th as much on them.
Programmers need to care about memory and processor usage again; engineers need to care about power consumption again. Do you really think that an mp3 player really needs to take 20MB of space? Power saved.
Batteries aren't the problem. People are.
SW
You goddamn fuckers! Don't do it! Adams was a genius. You guys are nothing...NOTHING!
Go make cinderella 3, you fucking Disney media whores. Douglas Adams is DEAD, and nothing will bring him back. DO NOT URINATE ON HIS GRAVE!
I think that if you won't donate organs you don't get donated organs. That would change some religious fuckers minds real quick.
The rules would be simple. You get on the list no matter what you do up to age 21, but if you haven't regestered by then, you don't get organs unless you do. AND if you register after age 21 you are not eligible for organs for 2 years after you declare yourself an organ doner. If you are not an organ doner by age 40 you cannot ever recieve a donated organ.
It isn't fair that people who think that it is OK to take someone'e organs are allowed to say that you can't take theirs if the shoe was on the other foot.
Rich people already practically pay for their organs (Look at Mickey Mantle). Why not shift the balance to those that are actually donating.
SW
Sience journalists must be BOTH scientists and writers. In the field I studied, Astrophysics, it is obvious that most journalists don't know the first thing about basic physics, and were probably sent to that American Astronomical Society conference because their editor hates them or lost a Super Bowl bet.
Seriously, people need to know what they are talking about, and almost no science journalists do. Since about half of scientists speak through their ass anyway, you must have writers that can cut through the crap and differentiate between what is real science, and what is some theorist's pipe/wet dream they are using to get funding this week.
Oh yeah, they have to be able to write too. Unfortunately most journalists can't do that either.
SetupWeasel
75 Monkeys down.... infinity to go.
Biosphere? BIOSPHERE?!
We need fucking construction capability in space and we need it now. Forget fucking biospheres, forget fucking boneloss. I want one real fucking orbital CONSTRUCTION SITE. A place where satillites can be made, a place that had a fucking purpose other then to let some fucking astronauts jerk off about how lucky they are that they are IN SPACE. The shuttle has been in service for 20 years and space travel has not progressed one inch because of it.
The ISS is the same as Mir is the same as SkyLab. A fucking lump of metal that serves next to no purpose and chews up money. SkyLab's time is over. It is time for orbiting platforms; it is time for earth/moon travel; it is time to find what use we can put the moon to. Then MAYBE there will be a point to going to mars, or even to launching the shuttle.
Those 7 astronauts died for no fucking reason whatsoever. And that pisses me off.
what I am saying is if you can't do this, then don't link the site. I just think it is unfair to have your website shut down, because you can't afford to show everyone the stuff you're doing.
SetupWeasel
Given the ease at which GeoCities bandwidth limits are exceeded, maybe Slashdot could host a mirror to link to from here. This would be in case the person in question needs his site for the rest of the month.
I really think this is starting to become a problem for people doing really cool stuff who don't have the money for a really good webserver. If slashdot thinks that a 20MB site is cool enough to post, surely Slashdot has that 20 MB of space on the its webserver to donate for a limited time. This would ensure that people like me can get to the site and people who do the cool shit aren't punished for doing cool shit.
SetupWeasel
My major is Astrophysics. What's yours?
SetupWeasel
I think that they ought to tighten security, so that no one who purchases a game will ever be able to play it. Then you could put a copy of astroids 1000 times on a CD write "Unreal Tournament 2003" on the cover and no one would ever know! And if someone did manage to crack it, you could then tout the flawlessness of your new security measures as it tricked the pirates into making a thousand copies of asteriods!
THIS IS THE FUTURE OF GAMING!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
SetupWeasel
Thank you. I will check that out.
SW
The very first time we looked at the ozone layer, we found a hole. I have yet to see conclusive proof that it has not always been there.
SW
GLTron is one of the coolest free games out there.
SetupWeasel
The LEGIT Japan release of the movie was published by Buena Vista Japan
Isn't Disney the company that keeps on lobbying to change copyright laws so that they can sit on Mickey Mouse for all of eternity?
I say fuck them.
SW
I'm the grammar referee, you see. I just have to know the rules. I don't have to live up to them. ^_^
SetupWeasel
-- M.A. Universe
At some point, that outrage becomes less, and it's "Submit your CC# for the Vorpal Sword of Spiffyness"
PQ 4ever!
SetupWeasel
-- Level 57 Demicanadian Bastard Lunatic (RIP)
Grammar check? ::whistle::
Tosses flag.
"Sentence fragment: 5 yards!"
SetupWeasel
May god have mercy on your soul, grammar nazi.