I was playing with some random CS bot a few years ago... And all of the sudden it started playing 10x better and started saying things I had never seen it say before. For a few minutes I thought maybe it had evolved lol.
I'm just curious, but how does an LCD have a refresh rate?? I was under the impression that they did not have them, just pixel response time... Or is the refresh rate 1 / its pixel_response_time??
And it looks nice and all... But really, the resolution would be way to low for my needs. I'll stick with my >$500 19" CRT for now I guess =/
A system like this would greatly increase a soldier's survivablity. The anti-FF system alone would greatly accomplish this, and when you throw on all the other gadgets our soldiers will be VERY difficult for some rag heads with an AK to kill.
Another thig is, we have to stay ahead of other countries. In the future, countries like India, Chine, Russia, and the Europeon Union will be able to match our strength. We must maintain our military superiority over everyone else.
In a way however, I do feel threatened as well. The second admendment was put in place as a system of checks and balances; when the government gets too powerful, we're supposed to fight back. What chance do civilians with guns(that the damn democrats try to restrict) have against the super soldiers that look like they come out of StarShip Troopers?? Of course, I guess this isn't too much of an issue considering that the current generation of Americans don't mind our liberties taken away anyways...
If you like using a PDA, then take one... I personally do and I will, but there are many people that don't like to use PDAs
Do you prefer using a desktop system over a laptop?? I know I like mine much better for normal use, so I will take mine.
I do however think that everyone should take a laptop... They are great for taking notes on in class, or just coding/writing/whatever outside of your dorm. But again, this is a personal choice, if you like paper then don't take one. I also recommend the iBook, it's small, light, good battery life, sexxy, and Mac OS X is perfect!
I wish companies would stop selling systems with 128mb of RAM... 256 is bare minimum nowadays. People wouldn't notice the difference between that 2.4ghz P4 and a $50 AMD Athlon XP 1700+...
Of course, I'm sure they do this because they can get away with it... The average consumer probably thinks a CPU with a big number next to it is more important.
Ipaqs are cool, but the screen is too small to be useful, IMO.
How do you define useful?? My PocketPC is great; I use it for PIM functions, gaming, and music. I sure wouldn't want to carry around a tablet PC 24/7 for PIM functions... And do you realize how useful the gaming is?? I have a Gameboy/GameboyAdvanced/NES/SNES/Sega emulator... I also have solitaire and some other native PocketPC games, it's incredibly useful during a boring lecture or waiting in a waiting room. My PocketPC and 256mb SD card has also replaced my discman... Can you go jogging with a tablet pc??
However, PDAs do have their limitation. They're not made for doing much more than above. I have a wifi card and could do email, webbrowsing, and remote desktop with it... But I agree the screen is far too small for that. I know someone who uses a palm pilot and a keyboard for class notes, IMO that would not work as well as my laptop.
Each of these devices have their places, you need to chose the right tool for the job.
I will agree with you on one issue though - they're too damned expensive. I'd like one very much, but it's not really worth $2600 to a poor unemployed student.(not that I'm the target consumer of these)
I used to scam people in UO all the time... Scams that involved exploits were generally bannable, however "social engineering" scams were legal(except for a about a year... but they never caught me =). They only worked on idiots and 11 year olds who's mommy just bought them it off ebay, but those types of people were plentiful.
It's quite funny to sell somebody gold on ebay, and then two days later scam it from him. What's more funny is that sometimes they buy it from you again.
I have a python script that continuously DLs Linux ISOs(from different mirrors of course) and then deletes them. This ensures that I'm using close to all of my 2.2mbps 24/7. I figure 'm getting more than I pay for this way, I hate my neihbors, and I hate my cable ISP... It's all good =/
of 'open source' programs (programs for which the source code is freely distributed).
Uhmm, yeah I'm sure nobody here at slashdot knew that...
To me though this seems like two things. First, give them the software and make them pay for upgrades. And second giving "millions" of dollars for practically free.
Regardless of how fast your processor is, this game will still run SLOW with software rendering. Even on my ahtlon 1800+, half-life get's TERRIBLE FPS in software rendering mode. I can't imagine that you'd be a able to play this with acceptable framerate in any resolution over 640x480 even if you're on a 3.06ghz P4.
Of course there might be people out there willing to play with 5-50 FPS, but I'm not one of them.
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Just because there's been 150,000 copies donloaded doesn't mean 150,000 XBoxen have been modded. I'm sure there's people who have downloaded it and not installed it(I do that to software often =/)and on the flip side I'm sure there's peopel who DL it and install on multiple. I'd take a guess and say the former is more common than the latter.
And to the idiot that said XBox games look like Quake 2, well you're just that - an idiot. The XBox is the technically superior system. It also IMO has the best controler - too bad it's games suck =/
Slashdot Mirror
When I was a kid I wanted porn spam...
I've been a proud surfer of internet pr0n since the 5th grade.(college freshman now)
They do!!
I was playing with some random CS bot a few years ago... And all of the sudden it started playing 10x better and started saying things I had never seen it say before. For a few minutes I thought maybe it had evolved lol.
Lee Carvallo's Extreme Putting Challenge
Is that anything like extreem programming?? If so, I think my boss'll buy it for me!
Wait a sec...
You're lying!
That was in Swordfish!
I'm just curious, but how does an LCD have a refresh rate?? I was under the impression that they did not have them, just pixel response time... Or is the refresh rate 1 / its pixel_response_time??
And it looks nice and all... But really, the resolution would be way to low for my needs. I'll stick with my >$500 19" CRT for now I guess =/
A system like this would greatly increase a soldier's survivablity. The anti-FF system alone would greatly accomplish this, and when you throw on all the other gadgets our soldiers will be VERY difficult for some rag heads with an AK to kill.
Another thig is, we have to stay ahead of other countries. In the future, countries like India, Chine, Russia, and the Europeon Union will be able to match our strength. We must maintain our military superiority over everyone else.
In a way however, I do feel threatened as well. The second admendment was put in place as a system of checks and balances; when the government gets too powerful, we're supposed to fight back. What chance do civilians with guns(that the damn democrats try to restrict) have against the super soldiers that look like they come out of StarShip Troopers?? Of course, I guess this isn't too much of an issue considering that the current generation of Americans don't mind our liberties taken away anyways...
After seeing this guy's grammar, I think he deffinitly needs to take some English classes...
Google cache
Sorry about the first one, I'm an idiot =/
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:KtKSHcwESUQJ: haystack.lcs.mit.edu/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
the Natalie Portman shower cam :D
Or maybe a beowulf cluster of them??
Does anybody know what the legalities are on hacking into computers ran by the "axis of evil"??
I'm sure that if a NK system admin called up the FBI, they wouldn't exactly give a shit...
If you like using a PDA, then take one... I personally do and I will, but there are many people that don't like to use PDAs
Do you prefer using a desktop system over a laptop?? I know I like mine much better for normal use, so I will take mine.
I do however think that everyone should take a laptop... They are great for taking notes on in class, or just coding/writing/whatever outside of your dorm. But again, this is a personal choice, if you like paper then don't take one. I also recommend the iBook, it's small, light, good battery life, sexxy, and Mac OS X is perfect!
Everyone's favourite scripting language ;-)
I use Python you insensitive clod!
You're telling me I have to pay for my operating system??
I wish companies would stop selling systems with 128mb of RAM... 256 is bare minimum nowadays. People wouldn't notice the difference between that 2.4ghz P4 and a $50 AMD Athlon XP 1700+...
Of course, I'm sure they do this because they can get away with it... The average consumer probably thinks a CPU with a big number next to it is more important.
Ipaqs are cool, but the screen is too small to be useful, IMO.
How do you define useful?? My PocketPC is great; I use it for PIM functions, gaming, and music. I sure wouldn't want to carry around a tablet PC 24/7 for PIM functions... And do you realize how useful the gaming is?? I have a Gameboy/GameboyAdvanced/NES/SNES/Sega emulator... I also have solitaire and some other native PocketPC games, it's incredibly useful during a boring lecture or waiting in a waiting room. My PocketPC and 256mb SD card has also replaced my discman... Can you go jogging with a tablet pc??
However, PDAs do have their limitation. They're not made for doing much more than above. I have a wifi card and could do email, webbrowsing, and remote desktop with it... But I agree the screen is far too small for that. I know someone who uses a palm pilot and a keyboard for class notes, IMO that would not work as well as my laptop.
Each of these devices have their places, you need to chose the right tool for the job.
I will agree with you on one issue though - they're too damned expensive. I'd like one very much, but it's not really worth $2600 to a poor unemployed student.(not that I'm the target consumer of these)
No extortion, blackmail, etc.
;-)
You've obviously never played with me
I used to scam people in UO all the time... Scams that involved exploits were generally bannable, however "social engineering" scams were legal(except for a about a year... but they never caught me =). They only worked on idiots and 11 year olds who's mommy just bought them it off ebay, but those types of people were plentiful.
It's quite funny to sell somebody gold on ebay, and then two days later scam it from him. What's more funny is that sometimes they buy it from you again.
Maybe because they tampered with a service that produces millions in revenues each year. People quit over this shit.
features lame gameplay, bad design, and a boringness that is almost unparalelled
The game's boringness is only paralelled by the movie's =/
How do you extract shows from the tivo?? I'd like to get all my Babylon 5: Crusades off, without sacraficing quality to VHS.
Thanks,
Corey
I have a python script that continuously DLs Linux ISOs(from different mirrors of course) and then deletes them. This ensures that I'm using close to all of my 2.2mbps 24/7. I figure 'm getting more than I pay for this way, I hate my neihbors, and I hate my cable ISP... It's all good =/
of 'open source' programs (programs for which the source code is freely distributed). Uhmm, yeah I'm sure nobody here at slashdot knew that...
To me though this seems like two things. First, give them the software and make them pay for upgrades. And second giving "millions" of dollars for practically free.
Regardless of how fast your processor is, this game will still run SLOW with software rendering. Even on my ahtlon 1800+, half-life get's TERRIBLE FPS in software rendering mode. I can't imagine that you'd be a able to play this with acceptable framerate in any resolution over 640x480 even if you're on a 3.06ghz P4.
Of course there might be people out there willing to play with 5-50 FPS, but I'm not one of them.
Just because there's been 150,000 copies donloaded doesn't mean 150,000 XBoxen have been modded. I'm sure there's people who have downloaded it and not installed it(I do that to software often =/)and on the flip side I'm sure there's peopel who DL it and install on multiple. I'd take a guess and say the former is more common than the latter.
And to the idiot that said XBox games look like Quake 2, well you're just that - an idiot. The XBox is the technically superior system. It also IMO has the best controler - too bad it's games suck =/