It's all fun and games until a bunch of cadets tries to pull a Kolvord Starburst and one of 'em bites it.
If only CleverNickName had told the truth from the start...it's all his fault!
I was in the Planetside beta...I haven't played SWG, but from what I've seen of it (I've read the manual and a few reviews), it looks very similar (not coincidentally, since they are both Sony Station MMORPG games). For example, it seems based on the same type of infrastructure (many servers, each a seperate "universe" such that one character can only be used on one server), and the same (or a very similar) game engine (localized battle zones, "certifications" that can be acquired or released, similar graphics and terrain).
I haven't seen any official (or unofficial) statements saying that they use the same technology...does anyone know if they do?
It then taps the brake and tightens the seatbelt...If the driver fails to respond, the system kicks in and brakes more while also tightening the seat belt. Unfortunately, Japanese regulations don't allow for the system to fully stop the vehicle."
But fortunately there is a loophole in the regulations, allowing them to gradually strangle the driver with his seatbelt until he stops the vehicle on his own.
True, true, one would have to move to Antarctica or something. That language they used only amounts to unrealistic hype, as we all know. "Forever change the way we consume media"...sh'ya! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!
Don't want the government to control you? Leave society and become a hermit...but you lose lots of practical benefits, like convenience stores, electricity, the internet, public sanitation systems, health insurance, etc.
However, when there are few or no lost benefits, people won't hesitate to use alternatives. Same thing applies to DRM...the more they clamp down, the more consumers squeeze through their fingers and start using consumer-friendly alternatives like ogg and mp3.
It's a funny cycle...raw CD audio isn't portable enough, so they create MP3s, leading to rampant file sharing and eventually Napster, leading to RIAA's unholy crusade for DRM, leading more people to use MP3...it will only end when consumers have no control over data. A bit late for that...
rofl, that's a great mental image...the black suits burst in your door, and you're standing there trying to get our your cock with one hand while opening your computer case with the other.
Get a WAP, stick it behind your cablemodem/router/whatever, and claim you had it set up insecurely for a while and that someone else was using it to download all that music.
Course, this don't work well if they snag your hard drives and you haven't securely wiped them...
I think they'd be opening a nasty can of worms if the general public had a financial motive to get telemarketers to call them. Scenario: you and a friend get jobs as telemarketers, then purposely call each others houses 50 times a day just to rack up profits from the fines.
Considering we want this system to actually work (creates potential for a similar anti-spam system in the future), it's probably best to keep the system well-designed.
I don't blame you at all for being annoyed about Matrix fan-worship...I agree with you, and your point was already clear. My question was rhetorical, but benzapp submitted a thought-provoking response...maybe I only think it's thought provoking because I haven't read Plato and I'm a pus-nuts dumbshit? It's not your opinion that makes you elitist, it's your attitude, and your choice of words that makes you ass.
I've heard this same diatribe from several people, worded almost the same way. Not actually having taken a philosophy class myself, I thought the first Matrix was fairly thought-provoking, and I assumed it derived much of its material from preexisting philosophical sources. So I'm left with the question: does attending one or more philosophy classes always turn a person into an elitist asshole, or only some?
While hard disk sizes have grown much faster than CPU speeds, I don't think hard disk access times/bandwidth have grown as fast. Perhaps it's a property of the universe, that it's easier to shrink technology in space (making things smaller) than in time (making things quicker)? Maybe, maybe not (femtosecond lasers, etc.)...
Weird...even though I grabbed them straight from the source for the pages for the second part, they point to the first part. Whatever...use the other links people posted.
Just as the hordes of anime fans on Slashdot have no interest in hearing about others' disinterest in anime. And yet so many like you are going to post to this thread saying how they don't care because they don't like anime. What's the point?
I, for one, hope they continue all research. It'd be way cooler to die by earth-sucking black hole or bio-matter disintegrating nanobots than of a heart attack or something. There would be an interesting, selfish comfort to dying when everyone else is dying too...:)
From the article:...The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
Nope, you mixed us up. I'm the one that skipped the prom to watch Worf's quantum-reality episode of TNG, so I've already seen enough of this sort of thing to know better. The other "me" went to the prom and skipped the episode, so he's still new to the concept. Ha, I'm such a loser in the alternate universe!
The researchers found that the system was 5.7 times better at removing heat than existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems.
It's misleading to generalize "existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems" to "existing systems", as was done in the discussion header. At least, it made me think article was about a cooling solution six times better than *ALL* existing cooling systems.
Of course, this leads one to question how good "existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems" are...
"Toshiba Matsushita Display expects the display with the image capturing function to open new consumer and business applications. The company expects the technology to be used in security applications such as fingerprint authentification."
lol..."authentification"...
Many of my college classes were taught using Java as the programming language, so I had a few years of experience with it in school. I've been using.NET since it was released, and it's been so much easier programming in VB.NET and C# than it ever was in Java, it's not even funny. Despite their problems, the Visual Studio.NET IDE and MSDN Library have no equivalent. They are totally awesome.
Yeah, it's a joke...I'm guessing someone modded it interesting beacuse they thought "synesthesia" was a cool word. Remember, just because you want to believe it doesn't make it true!
Stereo is accomplished in a single-monitor setup via synesthesia...they watermark the display image with an almost undetectable waveform representation of the second audio channel. Sort of like "joint stereo" in mp3s. But people with two monitors get true stereo.
But I might be crazy...
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It's all fun and games until a bunch of cadets tries to pull a Kolvord Starburst and one of 'em bites it. If only CleverNickName had told the truth from the start...it's all his fault!
I was in the Planetside beta...I haven't played SWG, but from what I've seen of it (I've read the manual and a few reviews), it looks very similar (not coincidentally, since they are both Sony Station MMORPG games). For example, it seems based on the same type of infrastructure (many servers, each a seperate "universe" such that one character can only be used on one server), and the same (or a very similar) game engine (localized battle zones, "certifications" that can be acquired or released, similar graphics and terrain). I haven't seen any official (or unofficial) statements saying that they use the same technology...does anyone know if they do?
True, true, one would have to move to Antarctica or something. That language they used only amounts to unrealistic hype, as we all know. "Forever change the way we consume media"...sh'ya! And monkeys might fly out of my butt!
Don't want the government to control you? Leave society and become a hermit...but you lose lots of practical benefits, like convenience stores, electricity, the internet, public sanitation systems, health insurance, etc.
However, when there are few or no lost benefits, people won't hesitate to use alternatives. Same thing applies to DRM...the more they clamp down, the more consumers squeeze through their fingers and start using consumer-friendly alternatives like ogg and mp3.
It's a funny cycle...raw CD audio isn't portable enough, so they create MP3s, leading to rampant file sharing and eventually Napster, leading to RIAA's unholy crusade for DRM, leading more people to use MP3...it will only end when consumers have no control over data. A bit late for that...
- hours of game play
- sweaty palms
- decreased skin resistance
- lethal current?
http://pchem.scs.uiuc.edu/pchemlab/electric.htmrofl, that's a great mental image...the black suits burst in your door, and you're standing there trying to get our your cock with one hand while opening your computer case with the other.
Get a WAP, stick it behind your cablemodem/router/whatever, and claim you had it set up insecurely for a while and that someone else was using it to download all that music. Course, this don't work well if they snag your hard drives and you haven't securely wiped them...
I think they'd be opening a nasty can of worms if the general public had a financial motive to get telemarketers to call them. Scenario: you and a friend get jobs as telemarketers, then purposely call each others houses 50 times a day just to rack up profits from the fines.
Considering we want this system to actually work (creates potential for a similar anti-spam system in the future), it's probably best to keep the system well-designed.
...then I have a 25 million dollar wire transfer I need your help to complete!
Funny site, for sure.
I don't blame you at all for being annoyed about Matrix fan-worship...I agree with you, and your point was already clear. My question was rhetorical, but benzapp submitted a thought-provoking response...maybe I only think it's thought provoking because I haven't read Plato and I'm a pus-nuts dumbshit? It's not your opinion that makes you elitist, it's your attitude, and your choice of words that makes you ass.
I've heard this same diatribe from several people, worded almost the same way. Not actually having taken a philosophy class myself, I thought the first Matrix was fairly thought-provoking, and I assumed it derived much of its material from preexisting philosophical sources. So I'm left with the question: does attending one or more philosophy classes always turn a person into an elitist asshole, or only some?
While hard disk sizes have grown much faster than CPU speeds, I don't think hard disk access times/bandwidth have grown as fast. Perhaps it's a property of the universe, that it's easier to shrink technology in space (making things smaller) than in time (making things quicker)? Maybe, maybe not (femtosecond lasers, etc.)...
Weird...even though I grabbed them straight from the source for the pages for the second part, they point to the first part. Whatever...use the other links people posted.
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Just as the hordes of anime fans on Slashdot have no interest in hearing about others' disinterest in anime. And yet so many like you are going to post to this thread saying how they don't care because they don't like anime. What's the point?
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I, for one, hope they continue all research. It'd be way cooler to die by earth-sucking black hole or bio-matter disintegrating nanobots than of a heart attack or something. There would be an interesting, selfish comfort to dying when everyone else is dying too... :)
From the article: ...The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on.
Nope, you mixed us up. I'm the one that skipped the prom to watch Worf's quantum-reality episode of TNG, so I've already seen enough of this sort of thing to know better. The other "me" went to the prom and skipped the episode, so he's still new to the concept. Ha, I'm such a loser in the alternate universe!
The researchers found that the system was 5.7 times better at removing heat than existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems.
It's misleading to generalize "existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems" to "existing systems", as was done in the discussion header. At least, it made me think article was about a cooling solution six times better than *ALL* existing cooling systems. Of course, this leads one to question how good "existing miniature pumpless liquid-cooling systems" are...
"Toshiba Matsushita Display expects the display with the image capturing function to open new consumer and business applications. The company expects the technology to be used in security applications such as fingerprint authentification." lol..."authentification"...
Many of my college classes were taught using Java as the programming language, so I had a few years of experience with it in school. I've been using .NET since it was released, and it's been so much easier programming in VB.NET and C# than it ever was in Java, it's not even funny. Despite their problems, the Visual Studio .NET IDE and MSDN Library have no equivalent. They are totally awesome.
The Carbon Dioxide-Nitrogen-Helium gas that gets released achieves a relative speed of Mach 6 in the process...perhaps that causes the recoil?
Yeah, it's a joke...I'm guessing someone modded it interesting beacuse they thought "synesthesia" was a cool word. Remember, just because you want to believe it doesn't make it true!
Stereo is accomplished in a single-monitor setup via synesthesia...they watermark the display image with an almost undetectable waveform representation of the second audio channel. Sort of like "joint stereo" in mp3s. But people with two monitors get true stereo. But I might be crazy...