"They said 10 of the 19 hijackers went through Logan - sothis system theorhetically would have caught 6 of them? Better than none. And it seems like the technology would improve with time."
Not quite. It would only have caught those of the hijackers who were on the do-not-fly list, which we all know is a resounding success. Since the hijackers did nothing to arouse suspicion in their initial period in the US, it's unlikely they'd have been flagged.
When my family first got a computer, I was in junior high, it was perhaps 1996. Initially, my mother limited my time spent on computer games to 1 hour a week. Let me tell you, there's not much you can do in an hour a week, I tried playing Myst. The only other games that were marginally playable oner those conditions were Lemmings and Sim City 2k.
I actually followed the rule for more than a year, then my dad started going on lemmings binges and the injustice of it all sank in. Ultimately, if she'd said "an hour per day" or something I probably would have wasted less of my life overall on computer games.
With Myth 3, it was worse. The publisher decided the game was done and fired everyone, even though it wasn't sufficiently tested and many issues were left unresolved. The Mac version, developed in house and originally slated for simultanious release, was tossed around by various porting houses and eventually released 3 months later. I'm still bitter.
Did they ever bother to port Outlook to OS X? I think it's already dead.
Regarding IE, I'm not incredibly surprised. How long has it been since a major update? Seems like at least 2 years to me.
You mean you've never had conversations in which you idly speculated about assassinating the President or various members of the Cabinet? I must be the only one.
Seriously, I ran a packet snuffer on my college network last year working on an unrelated project, looked at a couple packets from AIM and saw some things I wish I hadn't seen. If they'd been using encryption, my sanity and innocence would have been preserved.
They laughed at me when I started wearing this tin-foil helmet. The cast iron jock strap got even more giggles. Who is laughing now, huh? Who is laughing now?
Humans are a security problem, because they contain their own pool of memory too.
Yes, we need to move everyone's memory and put it on a machine in Redmond. I think 640 kb ought to be enough for most people.
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It isn't mentioned in the article, but iTunes now has peer to peer streaming of music. You can share your library or specific playlists and let people access those lists over the internet or LAN (using Rendezvous) and choose songs to play. This feature effects me more than does the music store, and I think it has lot's of cool implications for more legal music sharing.
Modern paper is too acidic, it will just eat itself up given enough time. I'd opt for inscribing it in tablets of lead, myself. That would sacrifice color, but you could make three tablets for every frame...
For the last few months whenever I've been forced to register for any site, in the process of making up a fictitious address, I've set my country of origin to some random third world country. Afghanistan is nice and close to the top of the list, so it certainly gets used a lot. Otherwise, I tend to prefer Sudan. Lots of sun.
Of course, I wouldn't do this on something like monster where they actually have a REASON for asking my address. I guess I'll have to stop though before the practice becomes more widespread.
Not really. This study may be new, but this fungus has been known about and I've seen the basic story before several times over the past few years. Most likely, the X-Files episode was based on one of the earlier reports.
Oops, as I RTFA, I see that this particular fungus wasn't discovered until 2001. I'm pretty sure the episode you're talking about was from before this. It must have been based on previous reports of biggest-organism-title-holding fungi like this[abcnews] one, which sites a monster fungus known about as far back as 1992.
Advertisers are providing a service by cutting into "Who Wants to Marry This Guy For His Money."
Seriously, when companies advertise by buying air time, they're generally benefitting the viewers-that content would not exist were it not for its commercial viability. Sure, they give you "Who Wants to Marry This Guy For His Money," but they also give you everything you like (besides all that great stuff on Public TV), and someone out there must watch that other crap.
Fax spam is a different story. If there were a direct comparason to the world of tv ads, Wal Mart would be paying a portion of your telecom bill.
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I'm not completely sure, but I think they created that stupid paperclip thingy in Word. At least I've never seen anyone else take credit for it.
Not quite. It would only have caught those of the hijackers who were on the do-not-fly list, which we all know is a resounding success. Since the hijackers did nothing to arouse suspicion in their initial period in the US, it's unlikely they'd have been flagged.
"Too often. One of my work systems died Friday after visiting windowsupdate.microsoft.com. 5 of my coworkers had similar problems."
They died?
Or extensive market research. Parent has a point, the designers may have been Korean but this game is sooooo Japan.
Of course, finding the WoMD probably involves cheat codes of some kind.
That's showing the feature called Exposé. I'm not clear exactly how it works, but when triggered it shows you all the windows you have open, scaled down so they fit.
I actually followed the rule for more than a year, then my dad started going on lemmings binges and the injustice of it all sank in. Ultimately, if she'd said "an hour per day" or something I probably would have wasted less of my life overall on computer games.
I hope the situation at Ritual isn't the same.
Did they ever bother to port Outlook to OS X? I think it's already dead. Regarding IE, I'm not incredibly surprised. How long has it been since a major update? Seems like at least 2 years to me.
You mean you've never had conversations in which you idly speculated about assassinating the President or various members of the Cabinet? I must be the only one. Seriously, I ran a packet snuffer on my college network last year working on an unrelated project, looked at a couple packets from AIM and saw some things I wish I hadn't seen. If they'd been using encryption, my sanity and innocence would have been preserved.
Thank god you checked it every day, otherwise this would never have happened.
$4.5 million sounds like a steal. It probably costs more than that to keep it in port for a year, let alone what it would actually cost to operate.
They laughed at me when I started wearing this tin-foil helmet. The cast iron jock strap got even more giggles. Who is laughing now, huh? Who is laughing now?
Yes, we need to move everyone's memory and put it on a machine in Redmond. I think 640 kb ought to be enough for most people.
It isn't mentioned in the article, but iTunes now has peer to peer streaming of music. You can share your library or specific playlists and let people access those lists over the internet or LAN (using Rendezvous) and choose songs to play. This feature effects me more than does the music store, and I think it has lot's of cool implications for more legal music sharing.
Modern paper is too acidic, it will just eat itself up given enough time. I'd opt for inscribing it in tablets of lead, myself. That would sacrifice color, but you could make three tablets for every frame...
For the last few months whenever I've been forced to register for any site, in the process of making up a fictitious address, I've set my country of origin to some random third world country. Afghanistan is nice and close to the top of the list, so it certainly gets used a lot. Otherwise, I tend to prefer Sudan. Lots of sun. Of course, I wouldn't do this on something like monster where they actually have a REASON for asking my address. I guess I'll have to stop though before the practice becomes more widespread.
What kind of slide rule did they use?
I don't want a ****ing 'user experience' out of my search engine. I want a page that loads fast and gives me the answers I'm looking for.
Oops, as I RTFA, I see that this particular fungus wasn't discovered until 2001. I'm pretty sure the episode you're talking about was from before this. It must have been based on previous reports of biggest-organism-title-holding fungi like this[abcnews] one, which sites a monster fungus known about as far back as 1992.
You want to cheat when playing for real money? We'll come to your house and shoot you with real bullets.
Seriously, when companies advertise by buying air time, they're generally benefitting the viewers-that content would not exist were it not for its commercial viability. Sure, they give you "Who Wants to Marry This Guy For His Money," but they also give you everything you like (besides all that great stuff on Public TV), and someone out there must watch that other crap.
Fax spam is a different story. If there were a direct comparason to the world of tv ads, Wal Mart would be paying a portion of your telecom bill.
It's running to fast, is it?
It's cool to bash Microsoft everywhere.
Small Computer Something Interface (I know you were joking, this just leapt to my mind)