The difference being that you can sit in your living room and play a real guitar for close to the price of Guitar Hero. You can't very well snowboard in the middle of the summer in Texas or where ever it may be that you live. Plus, even if you live in a nice region for snow sports it's a small fortune to pay for a lift ticket, snowboard, gear, gas to get to the mountain and take a day off work and to enjoy a snowboarding trip without the weekend crowds. Either way, both GH and this snowboarding game are just video games, no need for pantie twists.
The Constellation Program? Ugh. It's going to be to space vehicles what Vista is to operating systems. Ok, I'll bite. Do you say this because it looks like it will be pushed out to meet a timetable the low budget doesn't allow, or do you think there is a design flaw in the entire Contellation Program from the start?
Malfunction #3 out of what...98 manned flights? Not *that* bad of a track record. At least they didn't mount their payload the the side of a rocket and leave a HUGE heat shield exposed for the entire flight, including launch, right...right?
NASA's approach of building craft out of gold foil and tissue paper in clean rooms, trying to turn every last ounce of the payload into instrumentation is misguided. I agree with what you said about the sillyness that is the Space Shuttle "reusable" program, but you mention gold foil and tissue paper, which I can assume was a jab at Apollo's LM. In that case the weight of the spacecraft was VERY VERY specific, and the "gold foil" was the best way to control the heat from the thrusters of the craft without adding a ton of extra weight and was actually a pretty slick way about it. Sometimes lightweight spacecraft with instrumentation on every inch is a good thing.
That said, fuck the shuttle.
Yea, I made up that whole story. Wait, no I didn't. Anyways, I assume they didn't "think I was someone new" consciously, they used a IP reservation that said "if you see X MAC, send it here", if you see a new MAC send it there". Once they gathered enough info on the MAC to show it was high usage, it got added to the list of reservations and the cycle began. It does seem easier to just restrict the MAC of the modem, but this is Comcast we are talking about..who knows why they went about it this way.
I don't really mind that they were upset with my "abuse of the line", I just wish they had sent a dang letter or called me or something to tell me to knock it off instead of just screwing with me until I went away. If they had been upfront about it, I would have throttled back on the bandwidth usage. In my new residence I keep the line capped at 45.k up (as opposed to the max of 100~ish) to stop the same thing from happening again. So far, so good.
Yea, it's Comcast, Verizon DSL (Yearly contracts for god-knows-how-bad-service) or dial up. Or leech off the neighbors wifi, which I did till they moved! Argh!
I'm convinced instead of "blocking" some customers they simapily drove them to bad service so they would leave. I am an example of this:
I run lots of torrents, and have for years. I have always had a very very stable line with Prestige Digital Cable, whom was bought by Adelphia whom was eventually bought by Comcast. My service with Comcast started out bad, as the upload speeds were cut in half and the bill was almost doubled (over a course of 6 months) but the actual line was very very stable. I didn't pay for a static IP, but I had the same IP address for a very long time, as most people tend to have. Eventually one day my IP shifted to a new subnet which gave like 90% packet loss (tested 24/hrs a day and averaged out with some Linus scripting). I ran my PC straight into the modem (removing the Linksys router) and it gave me an IP on the old and trusted subnet, with no packet loss at all. When I hooked the router up it associated it's MAC and put me on the bad one again. So I cloned the PC's MAC to the router, and bada-bing I'm on the good subnet and back to my torrents. A few weeks go by and all of a sudden that MAC addy is being pushed onto the bad subnet. I clone another MAC addy and up onto the good subnet I go, and around and around we go. Eventually I got sick of it and canceled the service all together. When I called to cancel the woman was very friendly until she had a chance to pull up my account info, they she just told me "Your service is off. Goodbye, click", leading me to wonder if there is actually a note in my account that has me marked as a high-traffic user.
I realize most of this is based on paranoid speculation, so take it for what it's worth, but to be fair another friend of mine in the same town had the SAME EXACT situation take place. Just seems a little fishy.
Don't want to be forced to pay for insurance? Move to Virginia! In Virginia you can opt out of getting insurance by paying $500 for the Uninsured Motor Vehicle fee (link: http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/citizen/vehicles/insurance.asp ). Of course, you can get the pants sued off of you if you cause an accident, but perhaps you'll hit someone thats too poor for a lawsuit! On the other hand the bummer is it sure does mean there are a ton of idiots driving around without insurance as well whom you will hopefully avoid having hit YOU otherwise you will have to actually sue *them* if they decide not to pay for your car/medical bills. Better start a trust fund for the medical/automotive repair/lawyer fees! Hows $100 a month sound? Good deal, lets throw it in a bank account *just in case*. Wait...that's what insurance is. Except that in this case if you get hit next month, you only have $100 saved up. Doh!
Don't get me wrong, insurance sure is annoying, especially when it's enforced by the man, but it's really the best way about this type of thing. Otherwise you end up with some pretty jacked up situations. I don't like the feeling here in Va that I'm paying for my insurance like a good citizen and I *still* roll the dice every time I get on the road hoping one of these twits won't hit me.
Your DvD collection is an investment? I hope you don't plan on paying for eight years of college by selling DvDs of Batman Forever on eBay 20 years from now.
- Widescreen. Ugh. Repeat after me, laptops are for documents, not for movies. "Widescreen" just means "missing the top and bottom of the display" - it should be renamed "shortscreen".
Wait, what? Laptops aren't for movies? Tell that to all the people that travel with them. And besides, I like widescreen laptops. I can throw my buddy list over to the right and have a nice sized firefox window open with the rest of the screen and see both at the same time. I see what you mean about documents getting cut off, but I'd rather not lug around a giant laptop all the time for that luxury. If you want a good laptop for documents, get a 17inch screen with a nice resolution and you should be good to go.
2) all cellphones, whether active or not, can be located (by sending out signals which will provoke a passive response from their antenna's), over a short range (but still a few miles, given enough power in the transmitter)
Here's an honest question as you seem to know about this type of thing: With this type of technique would one be able to find the location a *specific* cell phone, or just find *a* cell phone? I can see how you could detect the existence of any cell phones in an area, but I'd be amazed if you could track down a specific cell phone that was powered down and perhaps had the battery removed.
Getting kids interested in scientific fields is scientific in itself.
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For the PS3 version, try this: http://www.adventure-today.com/crap/RockBandDrums.zip It's a small java app my buddy wrote that does exactly what the cmdr wants. Make sure you have the newest version of java, plug in the USB controller and go. It's brainless to setup.
**It does not yet work with the 360 controller, but he is working that out.
South Park is the worst fucking piece of shit out there. The only ones who watch it are the fucktarded sheeple who should be eliminated from the gene pool.
Oh, I see where you are confused. This conversation isn't about Family Guy.
How about an OSS software package that actually WORKS with Outlook's calendar system properly? I'm not talking about OWA via Firefox, I'm talking about something that supports all the pretty colors and features of the calendar.
A colony on the moon is the first step towards a manned Mars mission as learning how to survive on an alien surface for long periods of time is a major part of learning how to properly execute such a mission. We didn't just launch Apollo 11 in one shot and land; we had the entire Gemini and and four manned Apollo missions to work out all the details (Long term flight, EVA, rendezvous, docking etc) before making the actual moon landing attempt. In fact, the space station(s) have been excellent in educating us on how to have multi-month/year missions which will also be beneficial in a mission to Mars.
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The difference being that you can sit in your living room and play a real guitar for close to the price of Guitar Hero. You can't very well snowboard in the middle of the summer in Texas or where ever it may be that you live. Plus, even if you live in a nice region for snow sports it's a small fortune to pay for a lift ticket, snowboard, gear, gas to get to the mountain and take a day off work and to enjoy a snowboarding trip without the weekend crowds. Either way, both GH and this snowboarding game are just video games, no need for pantie twists.
Malfunction #3 out of what...98 manned flights? Not *that* bad of a track record. At least they didn't mount their payload the the side of a rocket and leave a HUGE heat shield exposed for the entire flight, including launch, right...right?
That's a really good idea.
I didn't torrent on their line, thanks for your input though.
Yea, I made up that whole story. Wait, no I didn't. Anyways, I assume they didn't "think I was someone new" consciously, they used a IP reservation that said "if you see X MAC, send it here", if you see a new MAC send it there". Once they gathered enough info on the MAC to show it was high usage, it got added to the list of reservations and the cycle began. It does seem easier to just restrict the MAC of the modem, but this is Comcast we are talking about..who knows why they went about it this way.
I don't really mind that they were upset with my "abuse of the line", I just wish they had sent a dang letter or called me or something to tell me to knock it off instead of just screwing with me until I went away. If they had been upfront about it, I would have throttled back on the bandwidth usage. In my new residence I keep the line capped at 45.k up (as opposed to the max of 100~ish) to stop the same thing from happening again. So far, so good.
Yea, it's Comcast, Verizon DSL (Yearly contracts for god-knows-how-bad-service) or dial up. Or leech off the neighbors wifi, which I did till they moved! Argh!
I'm convinced instead of "blocking" some customers they simapily drove them to bad service so they would leave. I am an example of this:
I run lots of torrents, and have for years. I have always had a very very stable line with Prestige Digital Cable, whom was bought by Adelphia whom was eventually bought by Comcast. My service with Comcast started out bad, as the upload speeds were cut in half and the bill was almost doubled (over a course of 6 months) but the actual line was very very stable. I didn't pay for a static IP, but I had the same IP address for a very long time, as most people tend to have. Eventually one day my IP shifted to a new subnet which gave like 90% packet loss (tested 24/hrs a day and averaged out with some Linus scripting). I ran my PC straight into the modem (removing the Linksys router) and it gave me an IP on the old and trusted subnet, with no packet loss at all. When I hooked the router up it associated it's MAC and put me on the bad one again. So I cloned the PC's MAC to the router, and bada-bing I'm on the good subnet and back to my torrents. A few weeks go by and all of a sudden that MAC addy is being pushed onto the bad subnet. I clone another MAC addy and up onto the good subnet I go, and around and around we go. Eventually I got sick of it and canceled the service all together. When I called to cancel the woman was very friendly until she had a chance to pull up my account info, they she just told me "Your service is off. Goodbye, click", leading me to wonder if there is actually a note in my account that has me marked as a high-traffic user.
I realize most of this is based on paranoid speculation, so take it for what it's worth, but to be fair another friend of mine in the same town had the SAME EXACT situation take place. Just seems a little fishy.
Don't want to be forced to pay for insurance? Move to Virginia! In Virginia you can opt out of getting insurance by paying $500 for the Uninsured Motor Vehicle fee (link: http://www.dmv.state.va.us/webdoc/citizen/vehicles/insurance.asp ). Of course, you can get the pants sued off of you if you cause an accident, but perhaps you'll hit someone thats too poor for a lawsuit! On the other hand the bummer is it sure does mean there are a ton of idiots driving around without insurance as well whom you will hopefully avoid having hit YOU otherwise you will have to actually sue *them* if they decide not to pay for your car/medical bills. Better start a trust fund for the medical/automotive repair/lawyer fees! Hows $100 a month sound? Good deal, lets throw it in a bank account *just in case*. Wait...that's what insurance is. Except that in this case if you get hit next month, you only have $100 saved up. Doh!
Don't get me wrong, insurance sure is annoying, especially when it's enforced by the man, but it's really the best way about this type of thing. Otherwise you end up with some pretty jacked up situations. I don't like the feeling here in Va that I'm paying for my insurance like a good citizen and I *still* roll the dice every time I get on the road hoping one of these twits won't hit me.
Your DvD collection is an investment? I hope you don't plan on paying for eight years of college by selling DvDs of Batman Forever on eBay 20 years from now.
- Widescreen. Ugh. Repeat after me, laptops are for documents, not for movies. "Widescreen" just means "missing the top and bottom of the display" - it should be renamed "shortscreen".
Wait, what? Laptops aren't for movies? Tell that to all the people that travel with them. And besides, I like widescreen laptops. I can throw my buddy list over to the right and have a nice sized firefox window open with the rest of the screen and see both at the same time. I see what you mean about documents getting cut off, but I'd rather not lug around a giant laptop all the time for that luxury. If you want a good laptop for documents, get a 17inch screen with a nice resolution and you should be good to go.
2) all cellphones, whether active or not, can be located (by sending out signals which will provoke a passive response from their antenna's), over a short range (but still a few miles, given enough power in the transmitter)
Here's an honest question as you seem to know about this type of thing: With this type of technique would one be able to find the location a *specific* cell phone, or just find *a* cell phone? I can see how you could detect the existence of any cell phones in an area, but I'd be amazed if you could track down a specific cell phone that was powered down and perhaps had the battery removed.
I personally never do anything outdoors that I wouldn't want to be caught doing. Paranoid? Perhaps. Unrealistic? Definitely not.
You want paranoid? I'll show you paranoid: What makes you think the man can't see through your roof, buddy?
Two... work your way out... go work for a small, fast growing company. Usually the job of "I run the whole damn business" is called "IT Manager".
Hey, that's my job. But seriously, it looks pretty good on a resume, even though I'd never want to be a manager at some huge company anyways.
Sounds more like they sent a fax.
Getting kids interested in scientific fields is scientific in itself.
For the PS3 version, try this: http://www.adventure-today.com/crap/RockBandDrums.zip It's a small java app my buddy wrote that does exactly what the cmdr wants. Make sure you have the newest version of java, plug in the USB controller and go. It's brainless to setup.
**It does not yet work with the 360 controller, but he is working that out.
Is it just me (and my girlfriend), or does this guy sound a lot like Kermit the Frog?
Also, the head tracking is awesome.
South Park is the worst fucking piece of shit out there. The only ones who watch it are the fucktarded sheeple who should be eliminated from the gene pool. Oh, I see where you are confused. This conversation isn't about Family Guy.
Very interesting and well written. Thanks for that post, it was a great read.
How about an OSS software package that actually WORKS with Outlook's calendar system properly? I'm not talking about OWA via Firefox, I'm talking about something that supports all the pretty colors and features of the calendar.
Just make sure you leave me a couple cyanide pills for when the food or oxygen run out.
It will save weight to just let the food and oxygen running out take it's natural course. Good luck!
A colony on the moon is the first step towards a manned Mars mission as learning how to survive on an alien surface for long periods of time is a major part of learning how to properly execute such a mission. We didn't just launch Apollo 11 in one shot and land; we had the entire Gemini and and four manned Apollo missions to work out all the details (Long term flight, EVA, rendezvous, docking etc) before making the actual moon landing attempt. In fact, the space station(s) have been excellent in educating us on how to have multi-month/year missions which will also be beneficial in a mission to Mars.