Actually, you can log into Steam on any machine you please and play any of your games. Well, maybe it's limited by country or something, maybe not. But I've never had any problem going into my Steam account and playing any of my games from any machine I felt like, but I haven't traveled outside my province here in Canada to try it. But it sure doesn't "authenticate your account to a particular machine."
When I saw the thing attached to the rifle, the first thing that went through my head was someone was using the accelerometers in there to automatically calculate the distance that the bullet would hit at when shot from the current angle. Given a known load, this should be child's play. You could have a real-time display of how far away your zero is based on where you're pointing the rifle at the moment. When I read the article and found out that it's simply a ballistics program, and the fact that the device is attached to the rifle is irrelevant, I was no longer interested. Really, a ballistics program isn't big news. A way to attach it to the rifle isn't big news, or even particularly useful, necessarily. Actually making good use of the device that's attached to the rifle, *that* would be interesting news.
Then I will laugh at you for not buying a real Hummer. If you're going to buy a Hummer, at least get a real one. Not a chick Hummer. Or at least get a different kind of chick hummer.
No doubt, eh? I never want to use anything besides a Microsoft Trackball Explorer ever again. The fact that they haven't been made in years makes me very uneasy. They're getting harder and harder to find now, too. They used to be rather plentiful on ebay, but now they're getting more and more rare on there, too. And the prices that eventually get paid for them seem to be in the $200-$300 range now pretty regularly. I have been holding off on getting more because of that, but now I think it's time to forget that and just start biting the bullet and getting as many as I can to horde for myself. I think they're the best pointing device ever made, and I think the ebay situation mirrors that view. Sure wish they had sold well enough for Microsoft to have continued making them.
Why aren't they suing the computer and electric companies, too? The programs all need computers to run on. The computers all need electricity to run on. And how about suing the schools/books/etc where the programmers learned their programming skills? Obviously they should be suing them, too. And the elementary schools and even their own parents for helping them learn to speak a language that allowed them to communicate in the first place. If they couldn't communicate, they wouldn't have been able to learn any of the skills they needed to write those programs. Evil song-stealing parents!
meh, I don't think there's any point in recycling, either. I mean, it's quite an uplifting proposal, but it does seem to be both overkill and utterly ridiculous to spend so much time, effort, and energy in recycling programs, when a relatively small chunk of land nowhere near any populated areas can have the entire world's garbage dumped in it for 1000 years with much less impact on the Earth, in terms of time, effort, and energy required to do so. But, hey, recycling makes jobs! So, yeah, I'm probably not the best person to be chatting with about this kind of thing, haha. So I'll just take my leave. Have a good day.
You don't know how the closed captions were done, so that's irrelevant speculation.
It's not slurred, it's quite clear and audible. The 'th' sound can not possibly be mistaken for the 'k' sound, even if the word were slurred, which it isn't. Not to mention the 'uh' sound in the first syllable can't be mistaken for the 'ah' sound in father. There is absolutely no doubt that he says fucker, none whatsoever.
I don't know why you said to watch the scene again, as clearly I just did. I've seen the movie dozens and dozens of times, and as a result I'm quite familiar with it. It's rather plain why Tyrell changes his behaviour, trying to dissuade Roy from doing whatever it is he might have in mind, to calm/console him in order to bring him down from his angry state, just as you might do for someone you care about. You talk about typical reactions, when Tyrell is anything but a typical person. He's an extremely smart person, capable of looking at things from many angles, capable of figuring things out, capable of figuring people out. After Roy says that, he's got better insight as to what's on Roy's mind and how might be best to deal with the situation, and he reacts accordingly. This is not that hard to figure out from watching the scene. Well, perhaps it is for some people. After all, some people think the movie's better with the voice-overs, because they couldn't figure these things out for themselves and the voice-overs did it for them. I'm glad I didn't see this movie until the Director's Cut was released. The voice-overs ruin the movie, as they're nothing but horrible redundancies, telling us things that we already know simply from paying attention to the movie. I remember seeing the theatrical release on TV a couple years later, and wondering wtf the voice-overs were there for. And after hearing more and more of them, wondering more and more what morons thought it was a good idea to put them there, and what worse morons needed them to understand and follow the movie.
He says fucker. It ruins so many aspects of the movie to change it to father. There is a reason people are comparing this to 'Han shoots first.'
The fact that he was cool, calm, and collected doesn't mean he wasn't offended. And it's not even about whether or not he was offended. He wasn't sure what Roy wanted at first, and upon finding out he had an "ah, so that's it" moment.
As for where we got this "fucker" version, well, that is indeed what he says. And the closed-captions on the DVD confirm it. He most definitely does *NOT* say father, and the captions back it up.
This actually disappoints me. He says "I want more life, fucker." He's there, pissed off that he's got an expiration date. And he expresses that anger, quite appropriately. Changing this line is quite pointless, and is indeed another Han-shoots-first moment that should never have happened. Why, oh why, do they have to do stupid things like this when restoring/touching-up old movies!?! Blade Runner is a classic, a masterpiece. The Director's Cut is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. I was hoping it would eventually get the restoration treatment, maybe remove the wires from the vehicles as they floated up, things like that. But changing, what I think is, such an important piece of dialog like that is beyond aggravating.
"BATTERY EXPLOSION KILLS MAN! (PS, the battery was only melted, sorry for saying it exploded. Because it didn't.)"
Since when does melting constitute exploding? This is a clear case of sensationalism where the facts have been changed. The thing melted, it didn't explode. Why on earth would they say it exploded, when the battery looks like it's intact, and the plastic over it just melted some? haha. Sheesh.
Every time I see another MPAA/RIAA story I can't help but picture Homer Simpson singing "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!" as he burns his house down.
Otherwise, there would have been more characters typed. And nobody ever, EVER, makes stupid mistakes in slashdot posts, and if they ever do, well, then the top-notch editors fix them up before the post makes it up there.
I phoned Seagate's tech support number to ask about this. As soon as I started talking about firmware the 1st-level tech support guy escalates me without asking anything else. The 2nd-level guy does a bit of reading and seems to think this AAK firmware is an OEM firmware, and that Seagate isn't obliged to do anything for me at all. I'm told to contact the store I bought it from, as it is an OEM drive and the OEM is responsible for any support or replacement options, etc, etc. What a joke. He says the AAE firmware is the latest firmware for Seagate's retail drives, and was a bit confused at first that this drive had AAK firmware. He ends up talking to one of the head engineers real quick, and when he comes back he relays that apparently some OEM company dumped a whole wack of drives onto retailers. Seagate basically told me good luck, but we ain't gonna do squat for ya, sonny. Lovely.
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Actually, you can log into Steam on any machine you please and play any of your games. Well, maybe it's limited by country or something, maybe not. But I've never had any problem going into my Steam account and playing any of my games from any machine I felt like, but I haven't traveled outside my province here in Canada to try it. But it sure doesn't "authenticate your account to a particular machine."
When I saw the thing attached to the rifle, the first thing that went through my head was someone was using the accelerometers in there to automatically calculate the distance that the bullet would hit at when shot from the current angle. Given a known load, this should be child's play. You could have a real-time display of how far away your zero is based on where you're pointing the rifle at the moment. When I read the article and found out that it's simply a ballistics program, and the fact that the device is attached to the rifle is irrelevant, I was no longer interested. Really, a ballistics program isn't big news. A way to attach it to the rifle isn't big news, or even particularly useful, necessarily. Actually making good use of the device that's attached to the rifle, *that* would be interesting news.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] "Tcp1323Opts"=dword:00000001 "SackOpts"=dword:00000001 "TcpWindowSize"=dword:0003ebc0
Then I will laugh at you for not buying a real Hummer. If you're going to buy a Hummer, at least get a real one. Not a chick Hummer. Or at least get a different kind of chick hummer.
No doubt, eh? I never want to use anything besides a Microsoft Trackball Explorer ever again. The fact that they haven't been made in years makes me very uneasy. They're getting harder and harder to find now, too. They used to be rather plentiful on ebay, but now they're getting more and more rare on there, too. And the prices that eventually get paid for them seem to be in the $200-$300 range now pretty regularly. I have been holding off on getting more because of that, but now I think it's time to forget that and just start biting the bullet and getting as many as I can to horde for myself. I think they're the best pointing device ever made, and I think the ebay situation mirrors that view. Sure wish they had sold well enough for Microsoft to have continued making them.
And also cool.
Why aren't they suing the computer and electric companies, too? The programs all need computers to run on. The computers all need electricity to run on. And how about suing the schools/books/etc where the programmers learned their programming skills? Obviously they should be suing them, too. And the elementary schools and even their own parents for helping them learn to speak a language that allowed them to communicate in the first place. If they couldn't communicate, they wouldn't have been able to learn any of the skills they needed to write those programs. Evil song-stealing parents!
The point is, they're not going to continue getting money if they keep screwing over, on a continuing basis, the people who give them the money.
EA just doesn't want any money, now do they?
No wonder "his" songs are so stupid.
I can't believe how bad the sentences are for killing a rabbit.
So, he was writing during the writers' strike...and nobody in the writers' guild is pissed?
Works fine for me and my 8GB in Vista Ultimate x64. Sounds like your system has other issues.
meh, I don't think there's any point in recycling, either. I mean, it's quite an uplifting proposal, but it does seem to be both overkill and utterly ridiculous to spend so much time, effort, and energy in recycling programs, when a relatively small chunk of land nowhere near any populated areas can have the entire world's garbage dumped in it for 1000 years with much less impact on the Earth, in terms of time, effort, and energy required to do so. But, hey, recycling makes jobs! So, yeah, I'm probably not the best person to be chatting with about this kind of thing, haha. So I'll just take my leave. Have a good day.
1. Which you could simply repeat.
2. Rocket store.
3. The ground.
4. Yes.
5. Maybe.
6. Says you.
"Moron."
Yes, let's all start name-calling without knowing what we're talking about...
Posted November 28th, 2007 here - NASA's manned mission to Mars penciled in for 2031. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/2029245
You don't know how the closed captions were done, so that's irrelevant speculation.
It's not slurred, it's quite clear and audible. The 'th' sound can not possibly be mistaken for the 'k' sound, even if the word were slurred, which it isn't. Not to mention the 'uh' sound in the first syllable can't be mistaken for the 'ah' sound in father. There is absolutely no doubt that he says fucker, none whatsoever.
I don't know why you said to watch the scene again, as clearly I just did. I've seen the movie dozens and dozens of times, and as a result I'm quite familiar with it. It's rather plain why Tyrell changes his behaviour, trying to dissuade Roy from doing whatever it is he might have in mind, to calm/console him in order to bring him down from his angry state, just as you might do for someone you care about. You talk about typical reactions, when Tyrell is anything but a typical person. He's an extremely smart person, capable of looking at things from many angles, capable of figuring things out, capable of figuring people out. After Roy says that, he's got better insight as to what's on Roy's mind and how might be best to deal with the situation, and he reacts accordingly. This is not that hard to figure out from watching the scene. Well, perhaps it is for some people. After all, some people think the movie's better with the voice-overs, because they couldn't figure these things out for themselves and the voice-overs did it for them. I'm glad I didn't see this movie until the Director's Cut was released. The voice-overs ruin the movie, as they're nothing but horrible redundancies, telling us things that we already know simply from paying attention to the movie. I remember seeing the theatrical release on TV a couple years later, and wondering wtf the voice-overs were there for. And after hearing more and more of them, wondering more and more what morons thought it was a good idea to put them there, and what worse morons needed them to understand and follow the movie.
He says fucker. It ruins so many aspects of the movie to change it to father. There is a reason people are comparing this to 'Han shoots first.'
The fact that he was cool, calm, and collected doesn't mean he wasn't offended. And it's not even about whether or not he was offended. He wasn't sure what Roy wanted at first, and upon finding out he had an "ah, so that's it" moment.
As for where we got this "fucker" version, well, that is indeed what he says. And the closed-captions on the DVD confirm it. He most definitely does *NOT* say father, and the captions back it up.
This actually disappoints me. He says "I want more life, fucker." He's there, pissed off that he's got an expiration date. And he expresses that anger, quite appropriately. Changing this line is quite pointless, and is indeed another Han-shoots-first moment that should never have happened. Why, oh why, do they have to do stupid things like this when restoring/touching-up old movies!?! Blade Runner is a classic, a masterpiece. The Director's Cut is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. I was hoping it would eventually get the restoration treatment, maybe remove the wires from the vehicles as they floated up, things like that. But changing, what I think is, such an important piece of dialog like that is beyond aggravating.
"BATTERY EXPLOSION KILLS MAN! (PS, the battery was only melted, sorry for saying it exploded. Because it didn't.)" Since when does melting constitute exploding? This is a clear case of sensationalism where the facts have been changed. The thing melted, it didn't explode. Why on earth would they say it exploded, when the battery looks like it's intact, and the plastic over it just melted some? haha. Sheesh.
Every time I see another MPAA/RIAA story I can't help but picture Homer Simpson singing "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!" as he burns his house down.
Because we most definitely are not getting ~80MB/s from the outside of the platters with the AAK firmware. That crap's got an artificial limit in it.
Otherwise, there would have been more characters typed. And nobody ever, EVER, makes stupid mistakes in slashdot posts, and if they ever do, well, then the top-notch editors fix them up before the post makes it up there.
That summary made my head hurt. Stupid taco.
I phoned Seagate's tech support number to ask about this. As soon as I started talking about firmware the 1st-level tech support guy escalates me without asking anything else. The 2nd-level guy does a bit of reading and seems to think this AAK firmware is an OEM firmware, and that Seagate isn't obliged to do anything for me at all. I'm told to contact the store I bought it from, as it is an OEM drive and the OEM is responsible for any support or replacement options, etc, etc. What a joke. He says the AAE firmware is the latest firmware for Seagate's retail drives, and was a bit confused at first that this drive had AAK firmware. He ends up talking to one of the head engineers real quick, and when he comes back he relays that apparently some OEM company dumped a whole wack of drives onto retailers. Seagate basically told me good luck, but we ain't gonna do squat for ya, sonny. Lovely.