Ok, lets's try your 'Evolution in Action' on another type of game.
"Dude, pawns can only move foward one space."
'No way! I'm cheating! Evolution in action! Check out this new move I made up.'
"You can't bring your pieces back onto the board!"
'I've given my bishop the "Raise the dead skill."
"What was THAT move?"
'Oh, I gave my King and Uzi so he can kill your pieces without moving. Since I haven't moved, he has now killed off all your pieces. Checkmate! I am the chess master! None can beat me and my new modified rules!'
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Out of curiousity, do you have the plans for the 4 Dcell mag light on the web anywhere?
"Basically Tivo wen't from being a cool company whose product I was thinking of buying to just another company whose product I will avoid."
Oh Horseshit.
The Tivo has been out for HOW long? If you've followed it at all, you've seen all the cool hacker upgrades you can do with it. So until now, a Tivo has been nothing but good.
And you still didn't buy one. You might have it on your fantasty list of things you want to buy, but the odds of you ACTUALLY buying one are nil.
I've noticed that almost everything that was made around WWII, can be made in a privately owned machine shop today.
Seeing that the first nuke was made around WWII, it looks like all you need is the access to the materials. I'd also suggest some heavy radiation gear.
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"Implication: A robber will gain full and total access to every aspect of your life, ruining it in one fell swoop, and police/government forces in many nations will destroy their opponents just as easily. And this will happen, because human's have both good and evil impulses."
Controlled good response:
All key cards can be disabled within minutes if you're near a telephone. If he left your cell phone behind, seconds. Just like a credit card.
Police/government forces can ALREADY destroy their opponents pretty easily. Guess it's not as easy as you're making it out to be.
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I'm not too surprised that they found a new way to increase data density. IBM has a great research department and they sell a lot of hard drives. I am curious to see if my computer can handle a 300 gig hard drive. And it will be cool to see their microdrive benifit from this also.
All I really want to know is WHEN? When do they expect these new drives to hit the market? How much testing do they have to do until they tool up for mass production?
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"And that somehow makes it immune to regulation? Words and pictures are the foundation of printed communication, but that doesn't mean I can string together "General Motors sucks. Sincerely, Ford Motors.", print up a bunch of flyers, and start handing them out."
Er, yes you can. You are within your rights to do just what you described.
Bad guy sucks his brain though a straw, I think:
"Well, maybe he didn't take much brain."
They drag his body back to Pilot, Chiana says he's dead, I think:
"Well, maybe he's just mostly dead. They'll come up with something."
Chiana wraps his body in a blanket, Sets him on fire, I think:
"Um, fire retardant blanket? He's a tough guy, he'll make it."
They throw his body off a bridge, final shot shows his flaming corpse falling hundreds of feet, banging into the side walls, I think:
"Geezus Christ, I get the picture already, the guy is wormfood."
I mentioned that to a guy who's building a working replica of the "Spirit of St. Louis"
He looked at me funny and told me that the plane was steel and fabric. He even rattled off the type of steel it was, mentioned that it's not used anymore for aircraft.
I'm surprised no one here has thought of ice buildup on the wings of this model aircraft. Maybe they put in some kind of heat pipe on the leading edge.
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I knew a guy who started going deaf from sitting next to the mainframe fans, back when I was in the Air Force. They sent us all in for hearing tests.
Wow! I just graduated too! Please send me this list of "Tons" of IT admin jobs cause I can't find any in my area.
Wow! Tons! I must of been looking in the wrong place.
Ok, lets's try your 'Evolution in Action' on another type of game.
"Dude, pawns can only move foward one space."
'No way! I'm cheating! Evolution in action! Check out this new move I made up.'
"You can't bring your pieces back onto the board!"
'I've given my bishop the "Raise the dead skill."
"What was THAT move?"
'Oh, I gave my King and Uzi so he can kill your pieces without moving. Since I haven't moved, he has now killed off all your pieces. Checkmate! I am the chess master! None can beat me and my new modified rules!'
Out of curiousity, do you have the plans for the 4 Dcell mag light on the web anywhere?
"Basically Tivo wen't from being a cool company whose product I was thinking of buying to just another company whose product I will avoid."
Oh Horseshit.
The Tivo has been out for HOW long? If you've followed it at all, you've seen all the cool hacker upgrades you can do with it. So until now, a Tivo has been nothing but good.
And you still didn't buy one. You might have it on your fantasty list of things you want to buy, but the odds of you ACTUALLY buying one are nil.
Take your sour grapes elsewhere.
"Oh my god, you've got NAS!"
Why does it have to be efficient? It just has to be doable.
I've noticed that almost everything that was made around WWII, can be made in a privately owned machine shop today.
Seeing that the first nuke was made around WWII, it looks like all you need is the access to the materials. I'd also suggest some heavy radiation gear.
Actually, it was in "Harpers" years ago.
"Implication: A robber will gain full and total access to every aspect of your life, ruining it in one fell swoop, and police/government forces in many nations will destroy their opponents just as easily. And this will happen, because human's have both good and evil impulses."
Controlled good response:
All key cards can be disabled within minutes if you're near a telephone. If he left your cell phone behind, seconds. Just like a credit card.
Police/government forces can ALREADY destroy their opponents pretty easily. Guess it's not as easy as you're making it out to be.
Sigh.
Read the specs.
It weighs 1050 pounds.
"Weight--Flywheel Module
850 lbs
Weight--Electronics Module
200 lbs"
If you read the article, you'd notice that they aren't planning on raising the prices at all.
They're dropping the items that they don't profit from.
They're going to have the items shipped from the distributers to you, reducing overhead and proccessing time.
Low profit books will no longer be held in inventory, they'll be ordered individually as needed.
You're right, this should be very interesting to watch.
I'm not too surprised that they found a new way to increase data density. IBM has a great research department and they sell a lot of hard drives. I am curious to see if my computer can handle a 300 gig hard drive. And it will be cool to see their microdrive benifit from this also.
All I really want to know is WHEN? When do they expect these new drives to hit the market? How much testing do they have to do until they tool up for mass production?
"And that somehow makes it immune to regulation? Words and pictures are the foundation of printed communication, but that doesn't mean I can string together "General Motors sucks. Sincerely, Ford Motors.", print up a bunch of flyers, and start handing them out."
Er, yes you can. You are within your rights to do just what you described.
I loved the episode where they kill Dargo.
Bad guy sucks his brain though a straw, I think:
"Well, maybe he didn't take much brain."
They drag his body back to Pilot, Chiana says he's dead, I think:
"Well, maybe he's just mostly dead. They'll come up with something."
Chiana wraps his body in a blanket, Sets him on fire, I think:
"Um, fire retardant blanket? He's a tough guy, he'll make it."
They throw his body off a bridge, final shot shows his flaming corpse falling hundreds of feet, banging into the side walls, I think:
"Geezus Christ, I get the picture already, the guy is wormfood."
Actually, it's not. It leads to a "Hearty Fuck You" page with a link to goatsex.cx on that.
"Use of any computing resources is restricted to authorized personnel only. Are you authorized? If not, it's a crime."
I have pinged their machine. Dealing with the ping has used up some computing resources. I'm am not authorized. I am a criminal.
Life is not boolean.
"Yes, I remember that. I'm not talking about him releasing it, but he acts as though it's the weblog to end all weblogs."
It's called "Pride".
That's an interesting idea, almost impossible to impletement. What do you do when you change jobs? Move every time?
Don't most tech jobs not last that long?
"We don't understand, we figured out a way to get free money from everyone and they're not cooperating!" says Rambus offal.
On a lighter note, "At the time of the trading halt, the shares were trading at $15.50, down $2.65, or more than 14 percent, before the halt."
At the bottom of the page it says that Rambus stock is worth about 13.11$. What does 'trading halt' mean again?
Huh, that's odd, when I went back to check the article, it's no longer listing Rambus's stock price at the bottom.
I mentioned that to a guy who's building a working replica of the "Spirit of St. Louis"
He looked at me funny and told me that the plane was steel and fabric. He even rattled off the type of steel it was, mentioned that it's not used anymore for aircraft.
I'm surprised no one here has thought of ice buildup on the wings of this model aircraft. Maybe they put in some kind of heat pipe on the leading edge.
Damn, I never have mod points when I need them.
I thought U of I invented a solid state blue laser that's being used right now in CD players?
"That's not good enough, I'm afraid. I want hard scientific facts, not ill-informed opinions."
And you read Slashdot?
Ok, if you can can make a mace out of it and hit someone over the head with it, it's solid enough for me.