At one point in time, I was consdiering creating a "real world" game, similar to everquest in terms of graphics and game style, but using modern weapons instead of old style weapons.
The ctach was this: I was hoping to drum up enough advertising revenue from companies, such as McDonalds, but placing their companies in the game. The hope was to defeat everquest by reducing or eliminating the monthly service fee for playing the game with advertsing dollars.
Of course, then I realized the McD's probably wouldn't like people blowing up their buildings with a rocket launcher... so I gave up on the idea.
But give it a little more time. I'm sure a game, like the one I just vaguely described, will exist before soon.
The first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain
Actually, that won't be that difficult to do if they are comparing this computer with the "brain power" some of the doe-doe's I went to high school with...
Instead of the big brim, it will be a red baseball cap! The mozilla icon will be breathing fire on a city! And the gnomes will be stealing underpants!
Hmmmm, maybe posting this idea isn't such a good idea. Coming next month, Windows K-12!! Clippy now gives your kids advice on drugs, sex, and on how Microsoft has the only real OS (can never start the brain washing too early).
If you could do it over again .......
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Ask William Shatner
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Mr. Shatner,
If you had to do it all over again, would you still do Star Trek... meaning are you uncomfortable with your acting career since you are now and forever James T. Kirk?? Do you feel that this may have hindered or limited other opportunites in your life or do you feel this was a once in a life time opportunity?
This sounds like an interesting product, but I have an even more light weight solution for this... especially if you run other things on the MySQL DB that MyDNS is running on (like a web site...)
Store all of your DNS information in a MySQL db, use the db to make updates, then have a silly shell/C/C++/Java/Perl/PHP script generate the DNS files for you... this way, there is less over head on the system over all...
Please poke holes in my solution... I'd like to be convinced that this is the best way to manage a large number of DNS entries...
Cheers!
Re:Holloween must be boycott'ed
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Howl-o-ween
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"If you beleive in morality and the Gospel you and you're family mus't boycott Holloween. It is a Pagan holliday that celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin. Do not allow you're children to wear costume, do not let them go to holloween party's, and do not hand out candy to kid's who are glorrifying Satin. This type of holliday has no place in a post 9-11 world!"
*Hates feeding a troll, but I have karma to burn*
I am assuming that you are American since you are using 9-11 as your excuse (as are too many other radicals and blood suckers in our society) for this post.
Do you understand that the U.S. has FREEDOM OF SPEECH??? It is great that you have your beliefs on this matter, but don't go pushing your feelings and beliefs onto others!
Besides, you take halloween too seriously if you really believe that crap. Halloween can be a time to have fun, dress up as your favorite movie character, super hero, or monster if you prefer. It is a time when you can act goofy and not have people think too much less of you. IT is also a great excuse for getting together with friends and getting drunk!
Besides, this post isn't just about halloween.. it is about this cool software and hardware package this guy put together. Something VERY similar could be used for X-mas... and I'm sure, since you seem to be anti-Satan, that you would want to use this to celebrate something with a more positive, religious conotation.
Lighten up man - and realize that although this instance of this equipment is being used "for evil", it could also be used "for good"!
(Obviously, I'm not trolling since I'm not being a coward by not posting anonymously, so please don't mod me as so....)
In other news: The power companies are asking that you turn off your A/C while you refuel your car.... the power companies are issuing warnings and heafty fines for those people consuming too much power. Now turing to the stock market, coal and uranium companies are seeing profits sky rocket...
(in voice that gets more and more mouse like as we keep speeding up towards the speed of light)
Capt'n Kirk, she's flying appart... I do'not know how much longer I can hold her together... She's com'in appart...
-- Scotty
That is what we'd be saying once this thing was traveling faster than the speed of light!
C'mon people, some simple physics here!! We can not travel that fast! Also, consider that with the nuclear blasts they are talking about, which would blow the sail right off of our little space craft!
Better yet, hook up the body of your car to your stereo's EQ!! Hopefully the paint can react to different electric charges that your EQ can send through it. This way, not only do you save money by not having to purchase a really cool looking LED EQ, but now even deaf people know when you're thumping down the street!
Seriously, if the governments want to impose a tax on people, one of te best ways to do this would to be by starting with Ebay!
Many smaller "online" stores use Ebay for advertisement and a way to drum up business. Obviously, they are not going to bother with state sales tax, but Ebay knows where everyone lives. As part of the auction, Ebay could tack on sales tax (although I'm pretty sre Ebay doesn't want to get involved).
As for the other larger outfits (Amazon, etc), they will need to be required to charge tax before they would even consider that idea. It would kill their customer base. Many online retailers don't charge tax because they already have to charge shipping. If you add tax onto shipping, it becomes (in most cases) cheaper to buy from your local retail outlet.
The only way that online retailers will charge sales tax is if the fed. gov't required ALL online retailers to collect taxes for every state, using the arguement that their store front exists in every state since people can produce their "store front" on their computer screen (yes, I know that isn't how the law is written, but I wouldn't be suprised to see it changed to something like this within the next 3 years).
States are getting hurt (badly) by Internet and catalogue sales.... and they count on that revenue when they forcast their budget. Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of charging sales tax on the 'net (I think it will kill online sales), but if the people are not charged internet tax, the states will be forced to find other means of generating revenue.
Here is one possible (really bad) scenerio:
States complain that their revenue is down due to Internet and catalogue sales.
States raise sales tax to cover the difference in their forcasted budgets
States are still angery that people are still buying more and more items on the Internet (due to higher retail sales tax and increased confidence in online shops)
States finally get their way and get to charge sales tax for ALL online stores since people are not reporting "state use tax".
Everyone except the state loses because we now pay higher taxes for all transactions.
... this took them right near the under construction AOL Time Warner building.
*thinking where are the terrorists when you need them... *
Ok, this may be even worse than the bit about the snipers, but you have to admit it would be pretty cool to take out a bunch of annyoing butterflies with something as useless as AOL/Time Warner! It is what I call two butterflies with one stone (*ohh.. that may be worse*)
We are ignorant when it comes to life. What exactly is life?
Isn't this why there are plans to retrieve some of the upper atmosphere of Venus? There have been several articles on/. recently describing how there could be life in Venus's upper atmosphere... just floating around, using carbon monoxide and the energy from the sun as a means of sustaining life.
BTW: I doubt you're going to find water on a planet as hot as Venus:)
This is why I REALLY hope there is life on Venus... it will make everyone take a hard look at where we should be looking for life. These "aliens" won't have arms and legs as we think of them, which would also be excellent!
But it would definately be cooler if we found something a bit more advanced than floating bacteria on Almathea, Europa or IO.
If there was life that was slightly more advanced, it is only a matter of time before someone from N*Sync will want to take a field trip out there...
I mean.. How is the flight crew going to tell the difference from an "ok" phone and a "bad" phone? Will they have to take your phone and check if it has some special certificate or what?
Maybe they'll make them purple with poka-dots that glow under a black light?
Or better yet, maybe they're planning on doing this (from the article)
To ensure that its proposed service doesn't interfere with cellular service on the ground, the AirCell system would block the frequencies passengers' phones normally use.
I have yet to find a person (although I have the feeling I'm about to...) who has used a desktop LCD as a primary display for at least a month, and wants to switch back to a CRT for reasons other than size.
In this case, it REALLY matters!
Administering dozens of machines on a 17" monitor vs. a 21" monitor is a world of difference.
But the size of the price is what still matters most. Until LCDs are competitively priced with CRTs, they will not have sales that come close to that of the CRTs (when it comes to pure volume, not rape $$$$$ produced by over priced LCDs)
I would check your contract before you start celebrating...
If I recall correctly, I read an agreement very similar to the one you are speaking of. In this agreement, you had no roaming fees if you remained on DIGITAL TOWERS. Most companies will charge you for the use of analog. Roaming is only free in digital areas...
These statements do not have a 100% money back guarentee, but it is food for thought
If it weren't for the ubiquitous cellphones: 1) another plane would have crashed in washington 2) more collumbine kids would have dies 3) People would not have been able to say their last words to their loved one before they jumped from the burning tower. but I guess you being annoyed is more important than being able to contact people in an emergency.
And this kind of stuff happens how often??
They didn't need cell phones when the US nuked Japan, did they???
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This is probably only the beginning.
... so I gave up on the idea.
At one point in time, I was consdiering creating a "real world" game, similar to everquest in terms of graphics and game style, but using modern weapons instead of old style weapons. The ctach was this: I was hoping to drum up enough advertising revenue from companies, such as McDonalds, but placing their companies in the game. The hope was to defeat everquest by reducing or eliminating the monthly service fee for playing the game with advertsing dollars.
Of course, then I realized the McD's probably wouldn't like people blowing up their buildings with a rocket launcher
But give it a little more time. I'm sure a game, like the one I just vaguely described, will exist before soon.
Actually, that won't be that difficult to do if they are comparing this computer with the "brain power" some of the doe-doe's I went to high school with
Instead of the big brim, it will be a red baseball cap! The mozilla icon will be breathing fire on a city! And the gnomes will be stealing underpants!
Hmmmm, maybe posting this idea isn't such a good idea. Coming next month, Windows K-12!! Clippy now gives your kids advice on drugs, sex, and on how Microsoft has the only real OS (can never start the brain washing too early).
Mr. Shatner,
... meaning are you uncomfortable with your acting career since you are now and forever James T. Kirk?? Do you feel that this may have hindered or limited other opportunites in your life or do you feel this was a once in a life time opportunity?
If you had to do it all over again, would you still do Star Trek
Cheers!
This sounds like an interesting product, but I have an even more light weight solution for this ... especially if you run other things on the MySQL DB that MyDNS is running on (like a web site ...)
... this way, there is less over head on the system over all ...
... I'd like to be convinced that this is the best way to manage a large number of DNS entries ...
Store all of your DNS information in a MySQL db, use the db to make updates, then have a silly shell/C/C++/Java/Perl/PHP script generate the DNS files for you
Please poke holes in my solution
Cheers!
*Hates feeding a troll, but I have karma to burn*
I am assuming that you are American since you are using 9-11 as your excuse (as are too many other radicals and blood suckers in our society) for this post.
Do you understand that the U.S. has FREEDOM OF SPEECH??? It is great that you have your beliefs on this matter, but don't go pushing your feelings and beliefs onto others!
Besides, you take halloween too seriously if you really believe that crap. Halloween can be a time to have fun, dress up as your favorite movie character, super hero, or monster if you prefer. It is a time when you can act goofy and not have people think too much less of you. IT is also a great excuse for getting together with friends and getting drunk!
Besides, this post isn't just about halloween
Lighten up man - and realize that although this instance of this equipment is being used "for evil", it could also be used "for good"!
(Obviously, I'm not trolling since I'm not being a coward by not posting anonymously, so please don't mod me as so
The question: do we have privacy? That that right was taken away Microshaft and the government back in the late 1990's
This will be on the exam.
Oh ....
.... :)
In other news, duracell and ever ready are seeling profits sky rocket as battery sales go throught the roof
I can see the rolling blackouts already
In other news: The power companies are asking that you turn off your A/C while you refuel your car
(in voice that gets more and more mouse like as we keep speeding up towards the speed of light)
Capt'n Kirk, she's flying appart
-- Scotty
That is what we'd be saying once this thing was traveling faster than the speed of light!
C'mon people, some simple physics here!! We can not travel that fast! Also, consider that with the nuclear blasts they are talking about, which would blow the sail right off of our little space craft!
Damn kids and their buzz words!
No, this is what we should do:
# tar -zcvf email_bomb.tgz windowsXP.iso
# elm -s "You've got bombed!" press@uruklink.net
repeat step 2 as many times as you can before your ISP shuts you down
I have a huge crack in my ass that needs repaired
... mod me down if you don't have a sence of humor)
(someone had to say it
Better yet, hook up the body of your car to your stereo's EQ!! Hopefully the paint can react to different electric charges that your EQ can send through it. This way, not only do you save money by not having to purchase a really cool looking LED EQ, but now even deaf people know when you're thumping down the street!
I can already see the headline:
How much did they pay (or what were they offering in exchange) for that 23%?
The other question: How many of those 23% knew that they were talking about information CDs and not CDs that generate interest??
Many smaller "online" stores use Ebay for advertisement and a way to drum up business. Obviously, they are not going to bother with state sales tax, but Ebay knows where everyone lives. As part of the auction, Ebay could tack on sales tax (although I'm pretty sre Ebay doesn't want to get involved).
As for the other larger outfits (Amazon, etc), they will need to be required to charge tax before they would even consider that idea. It would kill their customer base. Many online retailers don't charge tax because they already have to charge shipping. If you add tax onto shipping, it becomes (in most cases) cheaper to buy from your local retail outlet.
The only way that online retailers will charge sales tax is if the fed. gov't required ALL online retailers to collect taxes for every state, using the arguement that their store front exists in every state since people can produce their "store front" on their computer screen (yes, I know that isn't how the law is written, but I wouldn't be suprised to see it changed to something like this within the next 3 years).
States are getting hurt (badly) by Internet and catalogue sales
Here is one possible (really bad) scenerio:
Some food for thought
Although it sounds like this may be several years off, this could revoultionize LAN parties!!
... Hopefully better than a LCD does ....
Just think, no more strained backs while carrying you're 21" rolled up monitor to your buddies garage!
I also wonder how these things will deal with creases, fading, glare, etc
*thinking where are the terrorists when you need them
Ok, this may be even worse than the bit about the snipers, but you have to admit it would be pretty cool to take out a bunch of annyoing butterflies with something as useless as AOL/Time Warner! It is what I call two butterflies with one stone (*ohh
Isn't this why there are plans to retrieve some of the upper atmosphere of Venus? There have been several articles on
BTW: I doubt you're going to find water on a planet as hot as Venus
This is why I REALLY hope there is life on Venus
But it would definately be cooler if we found something a bit more advanced than floating bacteria on Almathea, Europa or IO.
If there was life that was slightly more advanced, it is only a matter of time before someone from N*Sync will want to take a field trip out there
Maybe they'll make them purple with poka-dots that glow under a black light?
Or better yet, maybe they're planning on doing this (from the article)
In this case, it REALLY matters!
Administering dozens of machines on a 17" monitor vs. a 21" monitor is a world of difference.
But the size of the price is what still matters most. Until LCDs are competitively priced with CRTs, they will not have sales that come close to that of the CRTs (when it comes to pure volume, not rape $$$$$ produced by over priced LCDs)
They still haven't addressed this issue.
Can you hear me now??"
I would check your contract before you start celebrating ...
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If I recall correctly, I read an agreement very similar to the one you are speaking of. In this agreement, you had no roaming fees if you remained on DIGITAL TOWERS. Most companies will charge you for the use of analog. Roaming is only free in digital areas
These statements do not have a 100% money back guarentee, but it is food for thought
And this kind of stuff happens how often??
They didn't need cell phones when the US nuked Japan, did they???
Besides, I hate when calls drop, so lets use Linux instead.