the greatness of these games lies in freedom.
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Living with Darth Vader
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don't miss the point: it's not just about popping online and fragging some doods. the greatness of games like star wars galaxies lies in the ability of the player to do pretty much whatever he/she wants.
nevermind that previous MMORPGs were limited in terms of what you really _could_ do feasibly. the idea that you could be an Expert Basketweaver and survive in the game is pretty nifty. why? because it lets people enjoy their time doing what they wanna do.
i used to play everquest. i was on the test server. i didn't go around power leveling and camping for stuff all the time. my idea of fun was to be Emperor of the server and have my minions deliver their hard-earned booty to me. it was a fun game, because i got to play with friends (flesh-and-blood friends, mind you) and goof around.
that's right. i was Noodles VII, Emperor of Norrath, founder of the Furious Foodstuffs. with my comrades, Turnip, Pickle and Caper, we spread joy and goodwill unto the world. in return, they paid me taxes.
it was enjoyable. i got to do what i wanted to do. of course, after i modified my desk chair to accomodate a chamber pot, had my electricity shut off cause i didn't pay the bills, then again converted my desk chair into a power-generating bicycle to keep my machine on to play everquest, i realized that there are things more important than everquest in life.
like booze. and the money to buy booze.
but nevermind all that. i don't plan on playing star wars galaxies, but the idea of becoming Fukkit, cousin of Wikket, Master Jedi of the Forest Moon of Endor, appeals to me. it calls to me. just imagine how powerful you could be as Fukkit, Cousing of Wikket, Master Jedi! you could be KING.
that other ewok eating all your food? You don't want to eat those grubs. "I don't want to eat these grubs." You want to give those grubs to me. "I want to give these grubs to you. Here."
that stupid AT-ST ruining your forest crib?/me force jumps on top of the AT-ST/me force opens the hatch/me whips out my lightsaber/me flips out.
that damn lEEthax0r playing a human princess shunning you? Yo, j00 r gonna make teh sw33t luv 2 me. "i r g0nna max0rz out wif j00." dun worry, i furry, but i never in a hurry for a bebe like j00.
jawohl. but the good thing is that it still serves as a good proof-of-concept.
for those who don't know: a short (very short) track maglev was build at old dominion university. really built. though the track really doesn't go anywhere to solve any mass transit problems, the mere fact that it was built is pretty amazing!
monorails and maglevs are pretty expensive anyway. instead of building either, it is more frugal to invest in light rail options.
but one cannot discount the significance of the maglev project. i am less familiar with the seattle monorail proposal that this story is about-- but as i mentioned in the post above this, i think the real story is in the fact that the grassroots campaign succeeded in getting the monorail project on the docket.
i just gotta take the time and say _wow_. you used "its" correctly.
you know things are in a sad state of affairs when reading "its" used correctly is eye-catching. it's pretty unusual these days.
ah, yeah. mod me down. i have karma to burn. besides, you're the same mods who mod my funny posts that have little to do with furthering intelligent debate! c(0_o)D
actually, lemme add something that _is_ relevant. it's pretty amazing and heartening to read that the voters in seattle were able to effect such a program, considering the dollar amounts that are involved. the fact that the vote was so close (94k vs 93k) might suggest that it was an issue that a lot of people knew about.
in virginia, there's been this bitter struggle to get a crazy amount of dough approved for building more roads and causeways for the hampton roads area (near norfolk/virginia beach). it's crazy because part of the money was to go towards "looking into" mass transportation.
the traffic here is nowhere near as bad as it is around northern virginia/washington dc. but it's getting worse. the hampton roads area consists of a handful of populated areas connected by highways. it would seem obvious that some sort of mass transportation should be developed, but there's a LOT of resistance.
what's interesting is that the amount of money spent for the latest campaign to build up the roads and highways must've been astronomical. there were television commercials, print adverts, signs, freakin telemarketers calling from nebraska, etc., all to convince people to vote for a tax increase to build more roads.
but really, mass transportation is the way to go, especially for this area. people commute 20 miles from va beach to norfolk, from norfolk to va beach, from this county to that-- most commuters travel 10-20 miles here. the chokepoints are bridges and tunnels that are needed to traverse the many canals, rivers and other maritime causeways.
if we would frikking build some sort of mass transportation system, the whole area would prosper. people are just worried over the dollar amounts and have difficulty fathoming the length of time needed to actualize such an idea. which is why they'd rather wait just 10 years for more roads instead of 15+ for trains and monorails.
doesn't make much sense. sigh. if only everyone were as intelligent as i am. or herr thunk. i think i'd be happy enough if people used "its," "it's," "your," and "your's" correctly. bah.
no kidding. the HERRD0KT0R FUND FOR BLOWING UP CRAP has been bone dry ever since the dotcom bubble burst.
people, give to charities now! without your support, the only people who'll be able to blow stuff up are people like the Gates brothers.
i'd give to this charity myself, but you know, i'd rather spend money on computers and stuff so i can spend my time bitching and moaning about things, instead of dedicating my resources to anything productive. like a job. so i can make money. to blow stuff up.
excellent suggestions. if your camera runs on lithium batteries, be sure you bring one or two extra ones, and keep em in your pants. they batteries like to poop out in the cold.
i shot TMAX-100 at 100, with f3.5 lens at 28mm, and kept the sucker open for 15 minutes for each exposure-- got wunnerful trails, but only ONE nice-lookin meteor (dumb camera was pointed in the wrong direction). only got a couple of usable shots, as i only brought one battery (which is why i remind you of the above suggestion).
it's very important to have a tripod! and don't futz with your camera! if you've got a shutter release, that's great too.
MRSA indeed = methicillin resistant staph. aureus, NOT, as the parent said, "multiple resistance to strains of antibiotics."
additionally, the fellow i'm replying to emphasized a very interesting point that was discussed in the article: VRSA got its resistance to vancomycin from a _different_ bug. fascinating, isn't it?
one must realize that though bacteria develop resistances, they can also _lose_ resistance. a strain that develops resistance to vanc could lose its resistance to some other antibiotic. i've seen this happen with MRSA: at first, people go bananas thinkin "ABANDON SHIT! MRSA! BREAK OUT THE BIG GUNS [last-ditch antibiotics]!" then, when the sensitivity labs come back, they breathe a sigh of relief: "good news men, this sucker can be killed with toothpaste [err, a very cheap, common antibiotic]."
this article doesn't provoke the kind of discussion you talk about because we're all skeptics.
remember HABITAT for the commodore 64? for quantumlink (now AOL), it was a persistent, customizable world. nice graphics for the time, great concept. it was turned into Club Caribe and launched with much fanfare. what have we learned from this foray into persistent online worlds? people want to collect tokens to buy stuff. like new heads. and they want to have sex online.
how bout ultimate online? people want the same thing. everquest? dark age of camelot? name it-- it's the same. everyone wants power, fame, money, and sex.
sure, you could launch yourself at more humble pursuits, but you'd be squashed out by the powergamers. even this would be turned into a game: have a nicest place, own the nicest stuff. or be the coolest.
people in _snow crash_ liked the metaverse because if afforded them the opportunity to be something they're not. it allowed them to be somewhere else. but even when they were able to go beyond the world around them and into another, they were still limited by real-world contraints: if you couldn't afford the right stuff, you looked like poop in the metaverse.
i guess what i'm trying to say is that the current mindset, and the current subset of the population who would engage themselves in this particular world, will probably just turn into the same crap the other game worlds have turned into. let me repeat that i think that this one _will_ be turned into a game by its players.
does this mean it shouldn't be done? no. with time and good feeding, it might normalize and develop a population of users who can actually enjoy every aspect of the world.
WALLHAx0Rz! with the OGC wallhax i can see through your walls and point the aimbot at bOObzOrz! wallhax your shirt! wallhax your pants! MUAHAHAHA! ALL YOUR BOOBZORZ R BELONG TO -ME-.
oh. wait./set wallhax on you're a guy?/aimbot nexttargetpls WAIT. YOU'RE ALL GUYS?
O, I WILL NEVER CHEAT AGAIN! O, CHEATING HAS BROUGHT ME UNTOLD MISERY! I HAVE RUINED THE METAVERSE FOR MYSELF WITH THESE HAX! I RENOUNCE CHEATING AND EMBRACE IGNORANCE!
this whole shebang about microdroplet formation and movement is especially incredible when considering lab-on-a-chip applications for the biotech industry.
one of the biggest problems with current solutions is the difficulty in utilizing small samples of blood/fluid. the solid-state approach of this team is great in that there are, by definition, NO MOVING PARTS! nothin to break down, and nothin to shrink down either. so you can keep things puny. the fluid volume in these experiments are in the _nanoliter_ range. and they have demonstrated their ability to split and reform droplets.
so imagine this: you have a limited quantity of blood to analyze, and wanna run a bazillion tests. no sweat. with this tech, you can suck off puny portions at a time! you can move them around however you'd like as well, to whatever assays you'd like to run.
the team has also demonstrated excellent droplet mixing results as well. why is this important? well, with fluid volumes that small, it is difficult to mix solutions. their electrowetting approach has yielded results that show excellent mixing. this is good for labs-on-a-chip as well, as you may need to mix different things together for certain assays.
the potential for this kind of technology is pretty staggering. very small. very little power. no moving parts. use em for switches of many sorts! or hell, did you check out the video where they move the drop at over 200 hertz?!
HOLY SHIZNIT!
that's fast! eesh! but screw all this serious stuff. i think we can _all_ enjoy the first video showing the droplet performing humping maneuvers. aww jeah.
as mentioned above, the sidstation uses SID chips from the commodore 64 to generate all sorts of crazeh beeps and gronks-- the site also has a ton of demos as well.
for all you crazeh c64 SID toon fans, be sure to check out the High Voltage SID Collection! tons of great SID toons from your childhood, including, but not limited to:
- Contra! bew bew bee boop ba boodaboop! - Commando! chikkachikkabowgronk! - Ultima IV! ba blinng! ba da bling! ba da bling. ba da blonng... - and who could forget the cutting edge voice synth of Neuromancer? SSSHOMM SHINNGS MMEEEVVERR CHANNNSGE!
you'll need the SIDPlay plugin to listen to these things with winamp. don't forget you can move the slider doohickey to choose from multiple tracks within each SID toon! WOOHOO!
i think you're missing the point of this important research. the benefits of working on such a project include, but aren't limited to:
- creating the ultimate peacetime weapon - hanging out with the ultimate geekgirl, jordan - hanging out with jordan and uh - hanging out with jordan.
oh, and before i forget! TONS and TONS of jiffypop popped from space!
there's nothing like a gathering of geeks.
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Campzone 2: The Return
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· Score: 2, Funny
nothin like a bunch of smart people to advance change. so much could be accomplished from needs that would be brought about by such a large outdoor gathering of socially and unsanitary people! for example:
- quick and easy means of networking a large number of computers - streamlined troubleshooting scripts for large-scale multiplayer gaming problems - novel ways of conserving toilet paper, including the world's first overlocked toilet, which flushes with 25GPF force effectively enabling the hidden bidet feature, thus doing away with the need for toilet paper - world's first toilet-cooled CPU - overclocked sticks of deodorant which push out 50ccs of gel deodorant with a single twist - overclocked deodorant spray designed to expel the contents of the entire can with a single press of the button, leading to the formation of a large, flammable cloud and subsequent auto-ignition of said cloud from CPU heat, which incinerates odorants and sterilizes users' armpits - finally, the invention of new jackoff techniques designed for speed and efficiency. a truly necessary technique for a world full of gov't surveillance and prying eyes.
GO GEEKS! GO FORTH AND BRING CHANGE UNTO THE WORLD!
quote: "With a game console and joysticks dangling from his waist."
hah! what a great way for geeks like us to meet REALY HAWT chix0Rz!
"scuse me, i'm having a problem with my joystick." "wanna play a game? grab hold!" "if you wanna donkey kong with me, yer gonna hafta play with the joystick."
this is not to be confused with the Saganography tool, which will be released in the near future, and will allow the common PC to visualize billions and billions of hidden alien transmissions.
quote: "Magic Online, socially, is not Magic: The Gathering. When you play Magic at your local card store, you're playing against people you know and respect. More than that, you're playing in person, against a living, breathing human being that you can interact with via flesh and sound. You can feel the warmth of that handshake."
the problems with online gaming are rampant, and include, but aren't limited to: playing with 12 year olds, playing with 90 year olds, playing with people your age who act like they're 12 year olds, playing with your mom, and finding out your mom's a l33t hax0r che4t3r.
see, that's the charm of playing games that with people sitting in front of you: there's nothing like Magic: The Gathering: FULL CONTACT. sure, you can feel the warmth of that handshake, but you can also choke the guy out, or maybe, JUST MAYBE, squeeze a bewbie.
yeah, that was the whole point of my post-- it was supposed to be funny, in that i'm telling you to go bananas so that you'd wipe the said groups out of existence. 8P
basically, it just shows which computer is better at playing chess, using different chess programs.
kinda like having me play britney spears at chess: a smart dood versus a dumb bimbo. we may both know the rules, and one might try to infer that i'm smarter, but basically all i'd be doing is showing that i play chess better.
but you know what they say: bewbies are the ultimate equalizer of intellect.
in which case i'd lose cause i can't concentrate, or lose cause i want her to win. screw having a good score in chess when you can get to first base!
Re:Do they switch processors and programs as well?
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Draw!
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look at the chart at the bottom of the page-- it would appear that they'll play every combination, including AMD/Fritz vs Intel/Fritz.
quote: "The Recording Industry Association of America said in a statement that it supports the Berman proposal, adding that 'Internet piracy undermines the growth of legitimate online music sites and hurts all consumers in the long run.'"
i think what the RIAA is trying to say is that if you guys keep pirating musical masterminds like n'sync, britney, j-lo and hootie, those groups are going to go bust, leaving _EVERYONE_ without their music.
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don't miss the point: it's not just about popping online and fragging some doods. the greatness of games like star wars galaxies lies in the ability of the player to do pretty much whatever he/she wants.
/me force jumps on top of the AT-ST /me force opens the hatch /me whips out my lightsaber /me flips out.
nevermind that previous MMORPGs were limited in terms of what you really _could_ do feasibly. the idea that you could be an Expert Basketweaver and survive in the game is pretty nifty. why? because it lets people enjoy their time doing what they wanna do.
i used to play everquest. i was on the test server. i didn't go around power leveling and camping for stuff all the time. my idea of fun was to be Emperor of the server and have my minions deliver their hard-earned booty to me. it was a fun game, because i got to play with friends (flesh-and-blood friends, mind you) and goof around.
that's right. i was Noodles VII, Emperor of Norrath, founder of the Furious Foodstuffs. with my comrades, Turnip, Pickle and Caper, we spread joy and goodwill unto the world. in return, they paid me taxes.
it was enjoyable. i got to do what i wanted to do. of course, after i modified my desk chair to accomodate a chamber pot, had my electricity shut off cause i didn't pay the bills, then again converted my desk chair into a power-generating bicycle to keep my machine on to play everquest, i realized that there are things more important than everquest in life.
like booze. and the money to buy booze.
but nevermind all that. i don't plan on playing star wars galaxies, but the idea of becoming Fukkit, cousin of Wikket, Master Jedi of the Forest Moon of Endor, appeals to me. it calls to me. just imagine how powerful you could be as Fukkit, Cousing of Wikket, Master Jedi! you could be KING.
that other ewok eating all your food?
You don't want to eat those grubs.
"I don't want to eat these grubs."
You want to give those grubs to me.
"I want to give these grubs to you. Here."
that stupid AT-ST ruining your forest crib?
that damn lEEthax0r playing a human princess shunning you?
Yo, j00 r gonna make teh sw33t luv 2 me.
"i r g0nna max0rz out wif j00."
dun worry, i furry, but i never in a hurry for a bebe like j00.
even han wouldn't be as smooth as me.
jawohl. but the good thing is that it still serves as a good proof-of-concept.
for those who don't know: a short (very short) track maglev was build at old dominion university. really built. though the track really doesn't go anywhere to solve any mass transit problems, the mere fact that it was built is pretty amazing!
monorails and maglevs are pretty expensive anyway. instead of building either, it is more frugal to invest in light rail options.
but one cannot discount the significance of the maglev project. i am less familiar with the seattle monorail proposal that this story is about-- but as i mentioned in the post above this, i think the real story is in the fact that the grassroots campaign succeeded in getting the monorail project on the docket.
i just gotta take the time and say _wow_. you used "its" correctly.
you know things are in a sad state of affairs when reading "its" used correctly is eye-catching. it's pretty unusual these days.
ah, yeah. mod me down. i have karma to burn. besides, you're the same mods who mod my funny posts that have little to do with furthering intelligent debate! c(0_o)D
actually, lemme add something that _is_ relevant. it's pretty amazing and heartening to read that the voters in seattle were able to effect such a program, considering the dollar amounts that are involved. the fact that the vote was so close (94k vs 93k) might suggest that it was an issue that a lot of people knew about.
in virginia, there's been this bitter struggle to get a crazy amount of dough approved for building more roads and causeways for the hampton roads area (near norfolk/virginia beach). it's crazy because part of the money was to go towards "looking into" mass transportation.
the traffic here is nowhere near as bad as it is around northern virginia/washington dc. but it's getting worse. the hampton roads area consists of a handful of populated areas connected by highways. it would seem obvious that some sort of mass transportation should be developed, but there's a LOT of resistance.
what's interesting is that the amount of money spent for the latest campaign to build up the roads and highways must've been astronomical. there were television commercials, print adverts, signs, freakin telemarketers calling from nebraska, etc., all to convince people to vote for a tax increase to build more roads.
but really, mass transportation is the way to go, especially for this area. people commute 20 miles from va beach to norfolk, from norfolk to va beach, from this county to that-- most commuters travel 10-20 miles here. the chokepoints are bridges and tunnels that are needed to traverse the many canals, rivers and other maritime causeways.
if we would frikking build some sort of mass transportation system, the whole area would prosper. people are just worried over the dollar amounts and have difficulty fathoming the length of time needed to actualize such an idea. which is why they'd rather wait just 10 years for more roads instead of 15+ for trains and monorails.
doesn't make much sense. sigh. if only everyone were as intelligent as i am. or herr thunk. i think i'd be happy enough if people used "its," "it's," "your," and "your's" correctly. bah.
no kidding. the HERRD0KT0R FUND FOR BLOWING UP CRAP has been bone dry ever since the dotcom bubble burst.
people, give to charities now! without your support, the only people who'll be able to blow stuff up are people like the Gates brothers.
i'd give to this charity myself, but you know, i'd rather spend money on computers and stuff so i can spend my time bitching and moaning about things, instead of dedicating my resources to anything productive. like a job. so i can make money. to blow stuff up.
Is it really really neccessary to have a cheap shot at MS no matter how little the post might be related?
yes.
Why don't we just have a default sig "Windoze sucks, Linux rulez."?
we do.
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Windoze sucks, Linux rulez.
excellent suggestions. if your camera runs on lithium batteries, be sure you bring one or two extra ones, and keep em in your pants. they batteries like to poop out in the cold.
i shot TMAX-100 at 100, with f3.5 lens at 28mm, and kept the sucker open for 15 minutes for each exposure-- got wunnerful trails, but only ONE nice-lookin meteor (dumb camera was pointed in the wrong direction). only got a couple of usable shots, as i only brought one battery (which is why i remind you of the above suggestion).
it's very important to have a tripod! and don't futz with your camera! if you've got a shutter release, that's great too.
here's my obligatory photo of the leonids from last year. one nice one, several very faint ones.
someone mod this fellow up.
MRSA indeed = methicillin resistant staph. aureus, NOT, as the parent said, "multiple resistance to strains of antibiotics."
additionally, the fellow i'm replying to emphasized a very interesting point that was discussed in the article: VRSA got its resistance to vancomycin from a _different_ bug. fascinating, isn't it?
one must realize that though bacteria develop resistances, they can also _lose_ resistance. a strain that develops resistance to vanc could lose its resistance to some other antibiotic. i've seen this happen with MRSA: at first, people go bananas thinkin "ABANDON SHIT! MRSA! BREAK OUT THE BIG GUNS [last-ditch antibiotics]!" then, when the sensitivity labs come back, they breathe a sigh of relief: "good news men, this sucker can be killed with toothpaste [err, a very cheap, common antibiotic]."
this article doesn't provoke the kind of discussion you talk about because we're all skeptics.
remember HABITAT for the commodore 64? for quantumlink (now AOL), it was a persistent, customizable world. nice graphics for the time, great concept. it was turned into Club Caribe and launched with much fanfare. what have we learned from this foray into persistent online worlds? people want to collect tokens to buy stuff. like new heads. and they want to have sex online.
how bout ultimate online? people want the same thing. everquest? dark age of camelot? name it-- it's the same. everyone wants power, fame, money, and sex.
sure, you could launch yourself at more humble pursuits, but you'd be squashed out by the powergamers. even this would be turned into a game: have a nicest place, own the nicest stuff. or be the coolest.
people in _snow crash_ liked the metaverse because if afforded them the opportunity to be something they're not. it allowed them to be somewhere else. but even when they were able to go beyond the world around them and into another, they were still limited by real-world contraints: if you couldn't afford the right stuff, you looked like poop in the metaverse.
i guess what i'm trying to say is that the current mindset, and the current subset of the population who would engage themselves in this particular world, will probably just turn into the same crap the other game worlds have turned into. let me repeat that i think that this one _will_ be turned into a game by its players.
does this mean it shouldn't be done? no. with time and good feeding, it might normalize and develop a population of users who can actually enjoy every aspect of the world.
WALLHAx0Rz!
/set wallhax on /aimbot nexttargetpls
with the OGC wallhax i can see through your walls and point the aimbot at bOObzOrz! wallhax your shirt! wallhax your pants! MUAHAHAHA! ALL YOUR BOOBZORZ R BELONG TO -ME-.
oh.
wait.
you're a guy?
WAIT.
YOU'RE ALL GUYS?
O, I WILL NEVER CHEAT AGAIN! O, CHEATING HAS BROUGHT ME UNTOLD MISERY! I HAVE RUINED THE METAVERSE FOR MYSELF WITH THESE HAX! I RENOUNCE CHEATING AND EMBRACE IGNORANCE!
FOR GREAT BOOBIES!
there was a comment above posted by anonymous coward that i'd thought i'd pass along. he just posted a full mirror of the site:
http://www.duke.edu/~pyp/microfluidics
apparently, you guys blew www.ee.duke.edu up.
this whole shebang about microdroplet formation and movement is especially incredible when considering lab-on-a-chip applications for the biotech industry.
one of the biggest problems with current solutions is the difficulty in utilizing small samples of blood/fluid. the solid-state approach of this team is great in that there are, by definition, NO MOVING PARTS! nothin to break down, and nothin to shrink down either. so you can keep things puny. the fluid volume in these experiments are in the _nanoliter_ range. and they have demonstrated their ability to split and reform droplets.
so imagine this: you have a limited quantity of blood to analyze, and wanna run a bazillion tests. no sweat. with this tech, you can suck off puny portions at a time! you can move them around however you'd like as well, to whatever assays you'd like to run.
the team has also demonstrated excellent droplet mixing results as well. why is this important? well, with fluid volumes that small, it is difficult to mix solutions. their electrowetting approach has yielded results that show excellent mixing. this is good for labs-on-a-chip as well, as you may need to mix different things together for certain assays.
the potential for this kind of technology is pretty staggering. very small. very little power. no moving parts. use em for switches of many sorts! or hell, did you check out the video where they move the drop at over 200 hertz?!
HOLY SHIZNIT!
that's fast! eesh! but screw all this serious stuff. i think we can _all_ enjoy the first video showing the droplet performing humping maneuvers. aww jeah.
aww JEAH! old sk00l ghetto synth in da hizzaus!
as mentioned above, the sidstation uses SID chips from the commodore 64 to generate all sorts of crazeh beeps and gronks-- the site also has a ton of demos as well.
for all you crazeh c64 SID toon fans, be sure to check out the High Voltage SID Collection! tons of great SID toons from your childhood, including, but not limited to:
- Contra! bew bew bee boop ba boodaboop!
- Commando! chikkachikkabowgronk!
- Ultima IV! ba blinng! ba da bling! ba da bling. ba da blonng...
- and who could forget the cutting edge voice synth of Neuromancer? SSSHOMM SHINNGS MMEEEVVERR CHANNNSGE!
you'll need the SIDPlay plugin to listen to these things with winamp. don't forget you can move the slider doohickey to choose from multiple tracks within each SID toon! WOOHOO!
i think you're missing the point of this important research. the benefits of working on such a project include, but aren't limited to:
- creating the ultimate peacetime weapon
- hanging out with the ultimate geekgirl, jordan
- hanging out with jordan
and uh
- hanging out with jordan.
oh, and before i forget! TONS and TONS of jiffypop popped from space!
nothin like a bunch of smart people to advance change. so much could be accomplished from needs that would be brought about by such a large outdoor gathering of socially and unsanitary people! for example:
- quick and easy means of networking a large number of computers
- streamlined troubleshooting scripts for large-scale multiplayer gaming problems
- novel ways of conserving toilet paper, including the world's first overlocked toilet, which flushes with 25GPF force effectively enabling the hidden bidet feature, thus doing away with the need for toilet paper
- world's first toilet-cooled CPU
- overclocked sticks of deodorant which push out 50ccs of gel deodorant with a single twist
- overclocked deodorant spray designed to expel the contents of the entire can with a single press of the button, leading to the formation of a large, flammable cloud and subsequent auto-ignition of said cloud from CPU heat, which incinerates odorants and sterilizes users' armpits
- finally, the invention of new jackoff techniques designed for speed and efficiency. a truly necessary technique for a world full of gov't surveillance and prying eyes.
GO GEEKS!
GO FORTH AND BRING CHANGE UNTO THE WORLD!
erm.
joystick_s_?
bwahaha.
i am twice the man as that single-joystick, wico-wielding fule over there!
quote:
"With a game console and joysticks dangling from his waist."
hah! what a great way for geeks like us to meet REALY HAWT chix0Rz!
"scuse me, i'm having a problem with my joystick."
"wanna play a game? grab hold!"
"if you wanna donkey kong with me, yer gonna hafta play with the joystick."
but you can only build the lego trebuchet after you upgrade the lego blacksmithy to make the lego siege workshop.
and don't forget to defend your lego trebuchet with lego archers and lego knights.
AND LOOKOUT FOR THE LEGO ZERG!
this is not to be confused with the Saganography tool, which will be released in the near future, and will allow the common PC to visualize billions and billions of hidden alien transmissions.
naro video, on colley avenue, has a decent selection of anime on both VHS and DVD.
but you should go just to see the small mobile made out of blockbuster membership cards.
quote:
"Magic Online, socially, is not Magic: The Gathering. When you play Magic at your local card store, you're playing against people you know and respect. More than that, you're playing in person, against a living, breathing human being that you can interact with via flesh and sound. You can feel the warmth of that handshake."
the problems with online gaming are rampant, and include, but aren't limited to: playing with 12 year olds, playing with 90 year olds, playing with people your age who act like they're 12 year olds, playing with your mom, and finding out your mom's a l33t hax0r che4t3r.
see, that's the charm of playing games that with people sitting in front of you: there's nothing like Magic: The Gathering: FULL CONTACT. sure, you can feel the warmth of that handshake, but you can also choke the guy out, or maybe, JUST MAYBE, squeeze a bewbie.
you can't do either, online.
especially the bewbie part.
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and if you could, what if it were your mom's?
yeah, that was the whole point of my post-- it was supposed to be funny, in that i'm telling you to go bananas so that you'd wipe the said groups out of existence. 8P
bah.
basically, it just shows which computer is better at playing chess, using different chess programs.
kinda like having me play britney spears at chess: a smart dood versus a dumb bimbo. we may both know the rules, and one might try to infer that i'm smarter, but basically all i'd be doing is showing that i play chess better.
but you know what they say:
bewbies are the ultimate equalizer of intellect.
in which case i'd lose cause i can't concentrate, or lose cause i want her to win. screw having a good score in chess when you can get to first base!
look at the chart at the bottom of the page-- it would appear that they'll play every combination, including AMD/Fritz vs Intel/Fritz.
all this processing power, and i'm watching two computers too stupid to draw.
move 125! move 126! move 127!
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move 32489! move 32490!
[insert blue screen of death on both computers here]
quote:
"The Recording Industry Association of America said in a statement that it supports the Berman proposal, adding that 'Internet piracy undermines the growth of legitimate online music sites and hurts all consumers in the long run.'"
i think what the RIAA is trying to say is that if you guys keep pirating musical masterminds like n'sync, britney, j-lo and hootie, those groups are going to go bust, leaving _EVERYONE_ without their music.
wtf j00 waiting for?
RAMMING SPEED!