This gadget is exactly the sort of thing that James Randi likes to put to the test for his million-dollar paranormal challenge ( http://www.randi.org/ ).
There are all sorts of "wine aging" gadgets, using magnets, crystals and all sorts of other magic, and this sounds like is yet another in a long line of scams.
If challenged, it would be amusing to hear the excuses the creator comes up with to avoid putting this silly machine to a proper test.
The problem is that if you can't afford to buy primals, you have to farm them up yourself. Which takes a lot longer than it should if a couple of bots are farming them 24/7.
It's also very annoying when you realise that you have to spend several boring hours grinding mobs but the bot-user just fires it up, goes out for the day, and comes back to several bags full of precious primals (and no doubt the odd blue or purple item as well).
Back in the days of the ZX Spectrum and Vic-20 there were lots of other small microcomputers on the market. I got my hands on one (from some Korean company, I think) which was small, neat, beige, with a small built-in LCD display. You could program it directly with BASIC, but the problem it had was it appeared to have only one error message: ERROR No line numbers, no error code number, no description or other indication what the problem was. At all. Syntax error? File not found? Divide by zero? Out of memory? Tough luck, "ERROR" is all you get to diagnose the problem with.
While I agree that the Wikipedia editors don't always get things right, if you look through the articles on Deletionpedia for even a single day, you'll see that they clear out tons and tons of utterly worthless drivel. I think they do a good job. If so much stuff wasn't deleted, every single high school, crappy teenage rock band, self-promoting looney and local newsletter would have an entry, not to mention the thousands of entries that kids add all the time saying "DAVE G. IS GAY LOLOLOL!!!!" and the whole thing would be overwhelmed by crap.
Cutting content out so they can release sounds really bad, and makes me think it's simply not finished yet and they're rushing it out before Wrath Of The Lich King sucks up too many potential players.
I cancelled my Age Of Conan subscription last week. It's very enjoyable up to level 20, when you leave the starting city, but gets annoying quite quickly after that. It feels like a beta version that is still a good few months away from being ready for release. It looks fantastic, but it's unstable, lacking high-level content, performance is flakey, and each patch seems to add major nerfs and buffs to classes which upset the players. Recently they seem to have messed up slope-calculations (so many players cannot walk up gentle slopes) and given world boss-mobs a one-shot-kill ability. You really get the impression that they're making changes in a panic and not testing them very well before shoving the patch out the door.
If Warhammer is released in a similar state of unreadiness it will annoy the player base very quickly, regardless of how awesome the graphics may look.
I spent some time at an EDS office last year. Some of the PCs had a corporate EDS screensaver, which played a series of slides showing how EDS spring into action to solve problems. The slides went like this: Picture of a kitchen, with a chip-pan bursting into flames. Oh no! But wait! You have EDS support. The EDS firemen are upstairs and on the way! Hurrah! EDS firemen sliding down pole into the kitchen to save the day! EDS firemen proceed to hose down the burning fat with water...
I've always thought it rather bizarre that Jesus is supposed to have been born on a fixed day (25th December), but his death (which is arguably even more important to Christianity) just kind of floats about sometime in spring. Yet presumably in Easter services the priest/vicar goes on about how "Jesus died on this day", as if it was actually a fixed date.
Why can't they just agree on a single date and stick to it? I mean, they make up so much other nonsense and claim it as hard fact, so why not this as well?
Could you give an example of one these "lame" attacks? He seems to be quite capable of explaining exactly what the problems with theism are, and why theists are incorrect about certain matters. He doesn't just shout "HURR RELIGION IS DUMB! HURF DURF!".
and to deny that Athiesm is not a form of religion is false.
Firstly, it's atheism, not athiesm.
Secondly, how can not believing in something be a religion? Do you believe in unicorns? I would guess not. So, by your reasoning you are member of the No Unicorns religion, right? Tell me, where is your church, and how often do you attend?
I'm using a new thin, flat , aluminium Apple keyboard as well, and don't have a problem with it. In fact, as it's so low on the desk I don't need any sort of wrist-rest like I do with my PC keyboard, so if anything it's slightly better.
First: Nowhere in the Bible, it says anything about the world being flat. We read about the waters being divided and the water being told to recede so land can form, but I can't remember a single word stating anything about the shape of Earth.
I believe it is inferred from certain passages, for example when Satan takes Jesus up to the top of a mountain to tempt him, and shows him the whole world laid out below. On a spherical world, you can't see everything from the top of a mountain but you can if it's flat.
In the same, if read literally the Bible also says that pi=3.0 (from the passage about a container measuring 10 across and 30 around).
But of course, nobody would try to read something like the Bible quite so absolutely literally these days, now would they...?
Of course. And they all live in mud huts and are in constant mortal peril from crocodiles and tigers. They could have no possible use from laptops other than rubbing two together to create Man's Red Fire!
I suspect the OLPC will be very welcome in those places that have little electricity but a strong desire to learn.
How would that work? I have some emails in my in-box from months ago. At what point do you decide the email has never been opened? Mail clients would somehow have to communicate back to the sending ISP whenever a mail was opened.
Also, many spams are sent from botnets, so innocent PC owners would get charged thousands of dollars, and I suspect some spammers run their own ISPs so would be able to send 24/7 no matter what.
Nice idea, won't work.
No, as I understand it, the virus depends on a library being at a particular location in order to insert the code which allows the virus to be processed. There is no way for it to "search around". It's the act of patching the library through the buffer overrun which allows the virus to start up.
If the library is not in the expected place the buffer overrun will not cause the processor to start executing the virus code.
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Haven't you seen 'Enemy Of The State'? Spy satellites can take photographs through clouds!
This gadget is exactly the sort of thing that James Randi likes to put to the test for his million-dollar paranormal challenge ( http://www.randi.org/ ).
There are all sorts of "wine aging" gadgets, using magnets, crystals and all sorts of other magic, and this sounds like is yet another in a long line of scams.
If challenged, it would be amusing to hear the excuses the creator comes up with to avoid putting this silly machine to a proper test.
Yeah? So how does the Smelloscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Big_Piece_of_Garbage) work, smartypants?
The problem is that if you can't afford to buy primals, you have to farm them up yourself. Which takes a lot longer than it should if a couple of bots are farming them 24/7.
It's also very annoying when you realise that you have to spend several boring hours grinding mobs but the bot-user just fires it up, goes out for the day, and comes back to several bags full of precious primals (and no doubt the odd blue or purple item as well).
Back in the days of the ZX Spectrum and Vic-20 there were lots of other small microcomputers on the market. I got my hands on one (from some Korean company, I think) which was small, neat, beige, with a small built-in LCD display. You could program it directly with BASIC, but the problem it had was it appeared to have only one error message:
ERROR
No line numbers, no error code number, no description or other indication what the problem was. At all. Syntax error? File not found? Divide by zero? Out of memory? Tough luck, "ERROR" is all you get to diagnose the problem with.
We've only used half the available numbers.
Just start using negative numbers: -248.100.-97.-201
While I agree that the Wikipedia editors don't always get things right, if you look through the articles on Deletionpedia for even a single day, you'll see that they clear out tons and tons of utterly worthless drivel.
I think they do a good job. If so much stuff wasn't deleted, every single high school, crappy teenage rock band, self-promoting looney and local newsletter would have an entry, not to mention the thousands of entries that kids add all the time saying "DAVE G. IS GAY LOLOLOL!!!!" and the whole thing would be overwhelmed by crap.
Cutting content out so they can release sounds really bad, and makes me think it's simply not finished yet and they're rushing it out before Wrath Of The Lich King sucks up too many potential players. I cancelled my Age Of Conan subscription last week. It's very enjoyable up to level 20, when you leave the starting city, but gets annoying quite quickly after that. It feels like a beta version that is still a good few months away from being ready for release. It looks fantastic, but it's unstable, lacking high-level content, performance is flakey, and each patch seems to add major nerfs and buffs to classes which upset the players. Recently they seem to have messed up slope-calculations (so many players cannot walk up gentle slopes) and given world boss-mobs a one-shot-kill ability. You really get the impression that they're making changes in a panic and not testing them very well before shoving the patch out the door. If Warhammer is released in a similar state of unreadiness it will annoy the player base very quickly, regardless of how awesome the graphics may look.
No, that's about four cents... No, sorry, now it's three.
Wait... two cents.
Just a minute... dropping again...
I spent some time at an EDS office last year. Some of the PCs had a corporate EDS screensaver, which played a series of slides showing how EDS spring into action to solve problems.
The slides went like this:
Picture of a kitchen, with a chip-pan bursting into flames. Oh no!
But wait! You have EDS support. The EDS firemen are upstairs and on the way! Hurrah!
EDS firemen sliding down pole into the kitchen to save the day!
EDS firemen proceed to hose down the burning fat with water...
I hope it's not intended to be representative.
Has the terrorist been locked up to keep us all safe from his radioactive animals?
I've always thought it rather bizarre that Jesus is supposed to have been born on a fixed day (25th December), but his death (which is arguably even more important to Christianity) just kind of floats about sometime in spring. Yet presumably in Easter services the priest/vicar goes on about how "Jesus died on this day", as if it was actually a fixed date.
Why can't they just agree on a single date and stick to it? I mean, they make up so much other nonsense and claim it as hard fact, so why not this as well?
Could you give an example of one these "lame" attacks? He seems to be quite capable of explaining exactly what the problems with theism are, and why theists are incorrect about certain matters. He doesn't just shout "HURR RELIGION IS DUMB! HURF DURF!".
Are you sure his employer wasn't a Kansas schoolboard?
Firstly, it's atheism, not athiesm.
Secondly, how can not believing in something be a religion? Do you believe in unicorns? I would guess not. So, by your reasoning you are member of the No Unicorns religion, right? Tell me, where is your church, and how often do you attend?
I'm using a new thin, flat , aluminium Apple keyboard as well, and don't have a problem with it. In fact, as it's so low on the desk I don't need any sort of wrist-rest like I do with my PC keyboard, so if anything it's slightly better.
I believe it is inferred from certain passages, for example when Satan takes Jesus up to the top of a mountain to tempt him, and shows him the whole world laid out below. On a spherical world, you can't see everything from the top of a mountain but you can if it's flat.
In the same, if read literally the Bible also says that pi=3.0 (from the passage about a container measuring 10 across and 30 around).
But of course, nobody would try to read something like the Bible quite so absolutely literally these days, now would they...?
Alternatively, the "Bible folks" could accept that they're simply wrong.
Crazy and radical, I know.
Of course. And they all live in mud huts and are in constant mortal peril from crocodiles and tigers. They could have no possible use from laptops other than rubbing two together to create Man's Red Fire!
I suspect the OLPC will be very welcome in those places that have little electricity but a strong desire to learn.
As long as tigers don't eat the OLPCs, of course.
How would that work? I have some emails in my in-box from months ago. At what point do you decide the email has never been opened? Mail clients would somehow have to communicate back to the sending ISP whenever a mail was opened. Also, many spams are sent from botnets, so innocent PC owners would get charged thousands of dollars, and I suspect some spammers run their own ISPs so would be able to send 24/7 no matter what. Nice idea, won't work.
Stop doing that. It's spamming. If you weren't aware before (are you stupid, perhaps?) then you are now. You're a spammer. What you do is spam.
You make the world a worse place by your actions.
Stop spamming people with spam, you spammer. Is that clear enough?
"but half the time it's dark"
So? Build a fleet of 747s carrying solar panels to fly around the world in sunlight 24/7.
Cheap, non-polluting, free energy for all!
Wow. The pain went away after a few years? I'm impressed.
How did this naturopath diagnose your allergies? Using something really scientific like a dowsing rod or crystal, I would hope.
And yes, I've seen people use that.
No, as I understand it, the virus depends on a library being at a particular location in order to insert the code which allows the virus to be processed. There is no way for it to "search around". It's the act of patching the library through the buffer overrun which allows the virus to start up. If the library is not in the expected place the buffer overrun will not cause the processor to start executing the virus code.