If you fly a spaceship to colonize a new planet, you will never have to drive a chuckwagon pulled by a team of horses to get across a babbling brook on that planet.
Why not? It's a great solution for a resource-poor world far from normal shipping lanes. The Wild West aspect of Firefly is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it's not entirely ridiculous.
Swearing in Chinese is geeky.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Besides, consider the back story that has the Chinese becoming so influential that their language becomes the lingua franca of a starfaring civilization. Lots of room for prequels here.
Statistics for Unreal Tournament have always tracked something called efficiency
Right, but as I recall a player's rank was based on the sheer number of kills, not factoring in efficiency. The broadcast announcement for an unbroken kill streak was pretty cool. I somehow managed to runup a "Godlike" streak once. I'm pretty sure I was sniping on Facing Worlds;)
Where death in games matter most is multi-player FPS titles....the game is pointless when there are immediate respawns
That's one of the things I hate about them (aside from the fact that I suck). There's no rankings penalty for getting killed a lot, so players just go kamikaze and boost their kill count. The old Air Warrior game had a statistic called "kills-to-death ratio" that was universally respected. It rewarded self-preservation and was a true indicator of skill.
I'm one of those "unaffected" OS X users. In the vast majority of clueless AV bounces I've received, the forged address is the one I created solely for my Slashdot account. I've never sent anyone a message from that address (well, except for the editors so they can reject every single story I've ever submitted, but I'm not bitter). Even though I stopped displaying it here a while ago, I think it remains visible on archived pages.
So how did SoBig get the address if it's not in anybody's address book?
Tech Support: Magic!! and oh by the way you owe me a beer.
I once got a call that the printer in the shipping department wasn't working. I peeked at the back and saw that the data cable (which she couldn't see) was partially unseated, so I laid hands on the device, pushed the cable in and shouted "Be healed!" The printer immediately started spitting out the queued jobs, and the stock clerk's jaw dropped.
If by "unix console" you mean a terminal window, double-click on/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
If you mean you want to look at the console log, double-click on/Applications/Utilities/Console.
Our son had never seen the Milky Way until we took him on a Mediterranean cruise as a college graduation present. I had forgotten how impressive a dark sky is.
i just hope that one day updates won't require a restart.
Ain't it annoying? How the hell am I going to get my uptime past 30 days or so if I keep having to restart because of patches? Curse you, Apple, for fixing things on a regular basis!!
Is it possible for end-users to easily disable an RFID?
I wonder if an anti-static gun would produce enough voltage to fry them (for the kids: these were used in the Vinyl Ablution Ritual that preceded placing the needle on the record in the old days).
While you're dealing drugs in Grand Theft Auto and driving over innocent people in Carmageddon, you piss on lawns in The Sims Online!
Ah, but they have an ace up their sleeve. Bring out....the Comfy Chair!
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Wired Magazine did an entertaining story about this a couple of years ago. My favorite part was the description of riding around West Palm Beach with one of the guys, setting off car alarms with sound pulses:
Eager to crank up the system, he hands me a set of earplugs. "Let's hear some bump."
I stick the plugs in, and he hits the burp button, a red switch on the center console. It's difficult to describe what happens next. The noise sounds like "BRRROONNNNKKKKK!" The vehicle vibrates like a jackhammer, but much lower and deeper. I feel air blowing the back of my hair, and my body starts to rise out of the seat. My pant legs are flapping. Everything in the car is rattling like crazy, and I realize my vision is blurred as my face pulls back taut against my skull. The only reaction left is to laugh out loud. I look over at Billy E gripping the steering wheel, squinting and grinning maniacally. He lets up on the button, and the chaos stops.
"If you're drinking a Coke, your throat will shut." I'm amazed I can actually hear his voice. "It's like being underwater. Your ears don't ring; they're just muted. After a day, everything opens up again," he says.
I second the AC's recommendation of anything by Eric Meyer, especially Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly). His latest, Eric Meyer on CSS, is a hands-on tutorial/workbook.
"I think the cover ugly; but I recognize that a main object of a paperback cover is to attract purchases, and I suppose that you are better judges of what is attractive in [the] USA than I am. I therefore will not enter into a debate about taste--(meaning though I did not say so: horrible colours and foul lettering)--but I must ask this about the vignette: what has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs? I do not understand how anybody who had read the tale (I hope you are one) could think such a picture would please the author."
Since server integration is the next big money maker for a LOT of vendors, I'm sure that MS will use the "no one uses V-PC on Macs anyways so we're redirecting our R&D to the Windows version" excuse here shortly.
I'm not so sure about that. Every copy of VPC is another Windows sale for Microsoft. And VPC emulates the Intel CPU, not any particular version of Windows, so MS probably wouldn't have to devote huge resources to maintaining it for the forseeable future.
the good drugs are only for the big scary sigmoid thing.
Naw, I had one of those already. It's quite uncomfortable, and they don't give you anything. A colonoscopy goes much farther into your nether regions, so they make you happy while they do it.
Despite the discomfort, it was cool to watch the video of the sigmoidoscopy. My lower colon in real time. Reality TV at its disgusting best.
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What the hell is a western and space fantasy doing on the same page?!
Too young to remember Battlestar Galactica, eh?
Prostitutes will never be the top females in the social hierarchy of any civilization.
No, but they can be socially acceptable.
If you fly a spaceship to colonize a new planet, you will never have to drive a chuckwagon pulled by a team of horses to get across a babbling brook on that planet.
Why not? It's a great solution for a resource-poor world far from normal shipping lanes. The Wild West aspect of Firefly is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it's not entirely ridiculous.
Swearing in Chinese is geeky.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Besides, consider the back story that has the Chinese becoming so influential that their language becomes the lingua franca of a starfaring civilization. Lots of room for prequels here.
Statistics for Unreal Tournament have always tracked something called efficiency
Right, but as I recall a player's rank was based on the sheer number of kills, not factoring in efficiency. The broadcast announcement for an unbroken kill streak was pretty cool. I somehow managed to runup a "Godlike" streak once. I'm pretty sure I was sniping on Facing Worlds ;)
Where death in games matter most is multi-player FPS titles....the game is pointless when there are immediate respawns
That's one of the things I hate about them (aside from the fact that I suck). There's no rankings penalty for getting killed a lot, so players just go kamikaze and boost their kill count. The old Air Warrior game had a statistic called "kills-to-death ratio" that was universally respected. It rewarded self-preservation and was a true indicator of skill.
Duh. The reason I quit displaying it was because I was getting spam. So that address is in the list of countless spammers. Sigh.
I'm one of those "unaffected" OS X users. In the vast majority of clueless AV bounces I've received, the forged address is the one I created solely for my Slashdot account. I've never sent anyone a message from that address (well, except for the editors so they can reject every single story I've ever submitted, but I'm not bitter). Even though I stopped displaying it here a while ago, I think it remains visible on archived pages.
So how did SoBig get the address if it's not in anybody's address book?
Tech Support: Magic!! and oh by the way you owe me a beer.
I once got a call that the printer in the shipping department wasn't working. I peeked at the back and saw that the data cable (which she couldn't see) was partially unseated, so I laid hands on the device, pushed the cable in and shouted "Be healed!" The printer immediately started spitting out the queued jobs, and the stock clerk's jaw dropped.
If by "unix console" you mean a terminal window, double-click on /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
If you mean you want to look at the console log, double-click on /Applications/Utilities/Console.
Our son had never seen the Milky Way until we took him on a Mediterranean cruise as a college graduation present. I had forgotten how impressive a dark sky is.
i just hope that one day updates won't require a restart.
Ain't it annoying? How the hell am I going to get my uptime past 30 days or so if I keep having to restart because of patches? Curse you, Apple, for fixing things on a regular basis!!
Anybody have any idea what files this updates and what version it updates those files to?
This is what the package contains. I haven't installed it, so I don't know what the new versions are.
Listing files for Security Update 2003-07-14Your CPU is idle 99% of the time, so what's the difference?
Not if you're running a distributed computing client. Folding@home keeps both of my CPUs busy:
I've never, ever heard anybody actually say 'jiggabyte' though..
Me either, but you might recall that Dr. Brown correctly pronounced "gigawatt" in Back to the Future (couldn't find a sound clip, sorry).
Is it possible for end-users to easily disable an RFID?
I wonder if an anti-static gun would produce enough voltage to fry them (for the kids: these were used in the Vinyl Ablution Ritual that preceded placing the needle on the record in the old days).
Maybe waving them over a negative ion generator?
While you're dealing drugs in Grand Theft Auto and driving over innocent people in Carmageddon, you piss on lawns in The Sims Online!
Ah, but they have an ace up their sleeve. Bring out....the Comfy Chair!
Wired Magazine did an entertaining story about this a couple of years ago. My favorite part was the description of riding around West Palm Beach with one of the guys, setting off car alarms with sound pulses:
We all KNOW that Apple users are pot smoking hippies
Don't forget that the company itself is so constrained by the political views of its corporate leadership and board, which now includes Al Gore, that it's accepting lower sales. Commie mutant traitors!
a good, up to date tutorial on CSS
I second the AC's recommendation of anything by Eric Meyer, especially Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly). His latest, Eric Meyer on CSS, is a hands-on tutorial/workbook.
I'll take note of your recommendation and give it a whirl with it on, thanks.
I've ripped it to iTunes. It's great mood music (for when you're in a really pissy mood). Would probably work as date music for goth chicks, too.
I the only one who goes into sound prefrences and turns that crap off so I can listen to my own MP3s?
The only game whose soundtrack I always left alone was Quake I. Reznor's incredibly creepy soundtrack was critical to the atmosphere of the game.
LOTR is a story that sold MILLIONS of copies with no special effects other than a nondescript painting on the cover of the book.
A painting which appalled the author, at that:
"I think the cover ugly; but I recognize that a main object of a paperback cover is to attract purchases, and I suppose that you are better judges of what is attractive in [the] USA than I am. I therefore will not enter into a debate about taste--(meaning though I did not say so: horrible colours and foul lettering)--but I must ask this about the vignette: what has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs? I do not understand how anybody who had read the tale (I hope you are one) could think such a picture would please the author."
Did they actually ask for receipts?
Nope. You just filled out an online form. I'm sure there was an affidavit in there somewhere, but I didn't look real hard.
Since server integration is the next big money maker for a LOT of vendors, I'm sure that MS will use the "no one uses V-PC on Macs anyways so we're redirecting our R&D to the Windows version" excuse here shortly.
I'm not so sure about that. Every copy of VPC is another Windows sale for Microsoft. And VPC emulates the Intel CPU, not any particular version of Windows, so MS probably wouldn't have to devote huge resources to maintaining it for the forseeable future.
the good drugs are only for the big scary sigmoid thing.
Naw, I had one of those already. It's quite uncomfortable, and they don't give you anything. A colonoscopy goes much farther into your nether regions, so they make you happy while they do it.
Despite the discomfort, it was cool to watch the video of the sigmoidoscopy. My lower colon in real time. Reality TV at its disgusting best.
I'm getting close to the age [if not there, uggh] of getting THE PROBE during a yearly physical.
Dude, I'm looking forward to it. My wife had a diagnostic colonoscopy and to judge from her behavior afterwards, they gave her some good drugs!