If they purchase eBay, they can have the best search engine, mapping service, and auction tools anywhere, plus paypal to boot. They'd be unstoppable. Might even make an OS after that . . . he he . . . Bye bye yahoo!
This thing really needs to have only 1 rear wheel. Looking at it from a mountain biker's perspective, if you go over a big rock with that thing, you'll just bottom out. If the back was one wheeled, with the user platform above it, the front could be lifted for obstacles, and the rear would cruise over it. The ATV design is nice, I think it could be a cool military device for a few people, but I think a three wheel design might be able to maneuver better. Think johnny number five.
Geocache on mars . . .Difficulty rating 5?
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I want to be the first to plant a geocache on Mars. I'll make it easy and leave it right out in the open, it'll be a 5,1. Tought to get there, but easy to find when you do arrive. And I'd put a travel bug that is trying to get to Ursala Major . . .
Now, I know these won't be as popular as mp3 players are right now, but consider this possibility. Apple comes out with an iTunes like program that allows you to encode your dvd's in mp4 format with DRM similar to how it is now for their aac files. For people who travel often, this is a nice feature, carry around several of your favorites movies on a 40 or 60GB drive (assuming a dvd can encode to about 500-600MB) As well as being a kickass mp3 player, it would be a nice addition. If it had a video out, it would be a godsend on all those training trips I end up taking throughout the year.
I always liked the idea of having rooms for new players, to learn the ropes so to speak. Unfortunately, there's always some jackass who's a pro and wants to just shoot fish in a barrel . . .
I think we should make refridgerators very difficult to use. If you're too stupid to figure them out, you don't eat. We can prune the gene pools a bit. Don't want to LEARN, fine. Don't eat. People would smarten up real quick.
ALl the above were able to somehow transport me from my cushy recliner to the mind of whatever character was playing, so much so that hours upon hours would simply fly by. I'd oftne start playing in the morning and find myself stopping after dark. (Granted I wouldn't do this too often because of the couch-potatoed-ness of it, but every once in a while) When a game can lose you in its characters, story or atmosphere, I am very impressed. Ico, a very underrated game, gives a similar feel but doesn't quite make the most memorable list. Maybe the sequel will.
Already available Games? Maybe they mean PC games?
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Maybe the games they're referring to are PC games already available. Perhaps they intend to be able to play PC games directly through some special operating system tasks (i.e., allocate the memory for this game to install in RAM, play it, and then erase it for the next title) Hence the 32K number would mean all the games currently out on the market would be for this console. Just a thought.
They may have gotten it past the Tingrett, but it'll never get past the Pentavorette, the Colonel with his wee beady eyes . . . ooh, you'll eat my chicken!
I half expected people to be in here bashing M$ for this and that, billgates=devil linux=heaven, etc. etc. I'm glad that I see others stating what I was going to post, that people who use Linux or any open source system, are patching bugs, errors, recompiling kernels, fixing dependencies, changing simlinks but keeping old ones (just in case), ad nauseum.
Perhaps there's hope for geeks after all, we're not all Linux groupies that hate microsoft just to hate microsoft.:-)
You can use any type of hall of fame, since new people are added each year or so, allowing for further expansion. So, baseball, football, basketball, teams for clusters, players for workstations, etc.
Unfortunately, after flipping through this book extensively at Barnes & Noble, I found it to be a glorified Perl string manipulation book, applied to strings of DNA info instead of "Hello World!" type data. There was only one decent chapter on specific file format conversion. Not very worthwhile in my opinion,
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If they purchase eBay, they can have the best search engine, mapping service, and auction tools anywhere, plus paypal to boot. They'd be unstoppable. Might even make an OS after that . . . he he . . . Bye bye yahoo!
This thing really needs to have only 1 rear wheel. Looking at it from a mountain biker's perspective, if you go over a big rock with that thing, you'll just bottom out. If the back was one wheeled, with the user platform above it, the front could be lifted for obstacles, and the rear would cruise over it. The ATV design is nice, I think it could be a cool military device for a few people, but I think a three wheel design might be able to maneuver better. Think johnny number five.
I want to be the first to plant a geocache on Mars. I'll make it easy and leave it right out in the open, it'll be a 5,1. Tought to get there, but easy to find when you do arrive. And I'd put a travel bug that is trying to get to Ursala Major . . .
Now, I know these won't be as popular as mp3 players are right now, but consider this possibility. Apple comes out with an iTunes like program that allows you to encode your dvd's in mp4 format with DRM similar to how it is now for their aac files. For people who travel often, this is a nice feature, carry around several of your favorites movies on a 40 or 60GB drive (assuming a dvd can encode to about 500-600MB) As well as being a kickass mp3 player, it would be a nice addition. If it had a video out, it would be a godsend on all those training trips I end up taking throughout the year.
They wanted to put the words "DON'T PANIC" on the front cover . . .
Wonder how much this film would be done . . .
I always liked the idea of having rooms for new players, to learn the ropes so to speak. Unfortunately, there's always some jackass who's a pro and wants to just shoot fish in a barrel . . .
I think we should make refridgerators very difficult to use. If you're too stupid to figure them out, you don't eat. We can prune the gene pools a bit. Don't want to LEARN, fine. Don't eat. People would smarten up real quick.
They do exist, I remember reading about one such device on slashdot about 4 months ago. I think maybe Apex was putting it out in the US>
That would be the Running Man, not Total Recall, still an ahnuld film though . . .
ALl the above were able to somehow transport me from my cushy recliner to the mind of whatever character was playing, so much so that hours upon hours would simply fly by. I'd oftne start playing in the morning and find myself stopping after dark. (Granted I wouldn't do this too often because of the couch-potatoed-ness of it, but every once in a while) When a game can lose you in its characters, story or atmosphere, I am very impressed. Ico, a very underrated game, gives a similar feel but doesn't quite make the most memorable list. Maybe the sequel will.
Maybe the games they're referring to are PC games already available. Perhaps they intend to be able to play PC games directly through some special operating system tasks (i.e., allocate the memory for this game to install in RAM, play it, and then erase it for the next title) Hence the 32K number would mean all the games currently out on the market would be for this console. Just a thought.
They may have gotten it past the Tingrett, but it'll never get past the Pentavorette, the Colonel with his wee beady eyes . . . ooh, you'll eat my chicken!
I half expected people to be in here bashing M$ for this and that, billgates=devil linux=heaven, etc. etc. I'm glad that I see others stating what I was going to post, that people who use Linux or any open source system, are patching bugs, errors, recompiling kernels, fixing dependencies, changing simlinks but keeping old ones (just in case), ad nauseum. Perhaps there's hope for geeks after all, we're not all Linux groupies that hate microsoft just to hate microsoft. :-)
Just explain to little Billy that he has to have the correct version of gcc for his copy of Metal Gear to compile under his kernel. Um, right . . .
You can use any type of hall of fame, since new people are added each year or so, allowing for further expansion. So, baseball, football, basketball, teams for clusters, players for workstations, etc.
You're wrong, and everything you ever say is wrong. Period, end of discussion . . .
Will it rotate the other direction if they bring it to the northern hemisphere?
Unfortunately, after flipping through this book extensively at Barnes & Noble, I found it to be a glorified Perl string manipulation book, applied to strings of DNA info instead of "Hello World!" type data. There was only one decent chapter on specific file format conversion. Not very worthwhile in my opinion,