According to the US government, one of the meanings of "crank" is amphetamine. Since "go pills" are dexedrine, and dexedrine is an amphetamine, I think that "go pills are crank" is a logically true statemnt.
I would kick someone in the knees for an x86/Win32 disassembler that's as intuitive and easy to use as PS2Dis is for Playstation 2 MIPS code.
I'd been using that one for awhile (finding hidden bits in games I like), and I decided to check out the same kind of software for x86 disassembly. I felt like I was back in 1992 using DOS tools. Essentially all of the interfaces seem to be text-only, and there's none of the "click on an address and modify the code" functionality of PS2Dis, or the ease of navigation.
Since I'm only doing this for fun, it's just an irritation, but I imagine it would be very frustrating for a full developer.
Personally, I think VB'd have a nice little market if it came with Windows. For doing quick little hack jobs it's great. It's hard to justify the price tag it has today.
You can write VB scripts without any additional tools. Your pr0n process would (IMO) be easy to set up as a vbs file.
If you have to cut back on essentials because you're making less than $50K, you need to learn some damn spending habits.
It depends on where you live. I went on vacation to SF this last October, and judging from the rents I saw you'd pretty much be homeless if you were making less than $50k.
I liked the Dr. Who of the 80s, back when I used to watch more TV.
When I was going to school up in Canada, the Sci-Fi network equivalent up there (Space?) started running the series from the beginning. It was a huge mistake, because the early B&W episodes are basically uninteresting to most viewers of today. I didn't dislike them, but OTOH most of the stories would now be compressed into five minutes or less of episode time.
Ratings were so poor that they never ran the newer (more interesting, IMO) episodes while I was up there.
This product called R.A.C.H.A.L (Reduce Annoying Computer Heat And Loudness)
Am I the only one that wants to buy dual Berettas and get my Cleric Preston on with everyone who makes stupid-ass acronyms that are supposed to spell something clever?
A) They aren't the only site out there for gaming reviews, and frankly, you'll find very few reviews that are totally objective, and don't have one slant or another.
Find me a print magazine that's any different. In any case, no one is forcing you to subscribe to Gamespot, and I only used them as an example, since I don't have a subscription.
Guess, what !! You shouldn't have to pay the $5 at EB for that "demo" either.
Right... the publisher should just shell out the money to have the discs pressed and shipped, then give them away for free. There's a recipe for profit.
Let's try this then -- in the real world, I can wander about a store at will. *If* I decide to buy something interesting, then and only then do I actually pay anything. Paying my ISP bill and then paying to access the site tells me I have to pay to enter the mall, pay to enter the store, and then pay a third time if I actually do purchase a product.
I very, very much doubt that any online *retailer* is considering charging a fee to view their catalogue.
What this discussion is about are sites like Gamespot, which are the online equivalent of gaming magazines.
No, information costs corporate entities money to produce.
There is always a cost to produce information.
Example: I run a website for fans of the Legacy of Kain series of videogames. It costs me money to host, money to buy the hardware I need (video capture, chipped PS2 to play international games, etc.) It also costs me in terms of time to research the content for my site, write it up in at least a semi-interesting manner, and so forth. This is by far the greatest cost, and if I were working commercially, I'd have to pay someone a full time wage to do so.
I'm not interested in charging money for access to my site, but I can definitely sympathize with the online equivalent of magazines regarding the costs they incur to produce their content.
Shame he didn't sell her something else. That way he might stay employed, rather than being thrown out on his ear for giving one inch more customer service than is absolutely mandated by law.
Part of the reason I keep buying games at EB is that their employees are honest. If I ask them "What have you heard about this game?" they won't hesitate to tell me if they didn't think it was very good.
It appears that Chris Cunningham [director-file.com] is still involved with the project (as of May '02), which is a good sign.
The first time I saw the mention of a Neuromancer movie was as a sticker on the box for the videogame version when I bought it in fifth grade (~1988). I stopped holding my breath a long time ago.
That's a pity, because ATP far surpasses VL and Idoru.
I've loved everything I've read of Gibson's, but those two seemed to be the most conventional in terms of style. All Tomorrow's Parties is like some kind of hybrid of a science fiction novel and a poem. I was very pleased.
Very few Mac people ever upgrade their OS independantly of the hardware.
WTF? Every Mac person I've known (including myself, when I used to run a small network of them for a student newspaper) kept up to date with the latest OS. This was all pre-OS X (workstation), of course, but I can't imagine things have changed *that* much.
You might want to check your sources, as NO virus to knowledge has nor will be able to destroy a Hard Drive or BIOS on the physical level.
Overwriting the BIOS with garbage is as good as destroying it, unless you have a system with dual BIOS chips. If you can't boot to DOS, you can't re-flash it with the correct software.
Given that the forward button can only take you to one place (unless you want it to open a bunch of new browser windows when you click it), how else would it work, logically?
I was thinking of Britain or Germany. But then I remembered that there are a *lot* of people who feel similarly. It wouldn't be possible for us all to move over there. Besides, my family has been on this continent for almost four centuries.
I figure the best bet is to split the US into at least three countries. The South has always wanted to be their own anyway, so it could be them, the Free West and the In The Image of Dubyah East. Kind of like how Deutschland was, except the wall would be of mutual benefit.
Of course, we all know what happened the last time part of the US tried to secede. Obviously someone would have to convert the better part of DC into green glass for this plan to succeed.
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go pills are not crank.
According to the US government, one of the meanings of "crank" is amphetamine. Since "go pills" are dexedrine, and dexedrine is an amphetamine, I think that "go pills are crank" is a logically true statemnt.
We need robots to build houses, fix things and get natural resources from the ground.
As luck would have it, in the future there will be robots!
I would kick someone in the knees for an x86/Win32 disassembler that's as intuitive and easy to use as PS2Dis is for Playstation 2 MIPS code.
I'd been using that one for awhile (finding hidden bits in games I like), and I decided to check out the same kind of software for x86 disassembly. I felt like I was back in 1992 using DOS tools. Essentially all of the interfaces seem to be text-only, and there's none of the "click on an address and modify the code" functionality of PS2Dis, or the ease of navigation.
Since I'm only doing this for fun, it's just an irritation, but I imagine it would be very frustrating for a full developer.
Personally, I think VB'd have a nice little market if it came with Windows. For doing quick little hack jobs it's great. It's hard to justify the price tag it has today.
You can write VB scripts without any additional tools. Your pr0n process would (IMO) be easy to set up as a vbs file.
If you have to cut back on essentials because you're making less than $50K, you need to learn some damn spending habits.
It depends on where you live. I went on vacation to SF this last October, and judging from the rents I saw you'd pretty much be homeless if you were making less than $50k.
25+ years of eps without the derivitive dribble.
I liked the Dr. Who of the 80s, back when I used to watch more TV.
When I was going to school up in Canada, the Sci-Fi network equivalent up there (Space?) started running the series from the beginning. It was a huge mistake, because the early B&W episodes are basically uninteresting to most viewers of today. I didn't dislike them, but OTOH most of the stories would now be compressed into five minutes or less of episode time.
Ratings were so poor that they never ran the newer (more interesting, IMO) episodes while I was up there.
This product called R.A.C.H.A.L (Reduce Annoying Computer Heat And Loudness)
Am I the only one that wants to buy dual Berettas and get my Cleric Preston on with everyone who makes stupid-ass acronyms that are supposed to spell something clever?
Please tell me I'm not alone.
A) They aren't the only site out there for gaming reviews, and frankly, you'll find very few reviews that are totally objective, and don't have one slant or another.
Find me a print magazine that's any different. In any case, no one is forcing you to subscribe to Gamespot, and I only used them as an example, since I don't have a subscription.
Guess, what !! You shouldn't have to pay the $5 at EB for that "demo" either.
Right... the publisher should just shell out the money to have the discs pressed and shipped, then give them away for free. There's a recipe for profit.
Let's try this then -- in the real world, I can wander about a store at will. *If* I decide to buy something interesting, then and only then do I actually pay anything. Paying my ISP bill and then paying to access the site tells me I have to pay to enter the mall, pay to enter the store, and then pay a third time if I actually do purchase a product.
I very, very much doubt that any online *retailer* is considering charging a fee to view their catalogue.
What this discussion is about are sites like Gamespot, which are the online equivalent of gaming magazines.
And the problem is that they do NOT seem to provide ORIGINAL content.
Gamespot has a staff to write reviews, previews, interviews, etc. That is their exclusive content.
I do not feel that I should pay gamespot to download a game demo!
How is it any different than paying $5 for a demo disc at EB? It's not like they get their bandwidth for free.
No, information costs corporate entities money to produce.
There is always a cost to produce information.
Example: I run a website for fans of the Legacy of Kain series of videogames. It costs me money to host, money to buy the hardware I need (video capture, chipped PS2 to play international games, etc.) It also costs me in terms of time to research the content for my site, write it up in at least a semi-interesting manner, and so forth. This is by far the greatest cost, and if I were working commercially, I'd have to pay someone a full time wage to do so.
I'm not interested in charging money for access to my site, but I can definitely sympathize with the online equivalent of magazines regarding the costs they incur to produce their content.
That's not really an accurate analogy, it's more like being charged a toll to park your car, then being charged another to enter your home.
You own (or rent, etc.) your home. You don't own the vast majority of the sites on the web you visit.
Yay, then it will be possible to spend $800 for a gaming video subsystem!
Meanwhile, the percentage of dangerous people seems to be going up, if the prison population is any guide.
The prison population is going up because so many things that should be a matter of personal choice (e.g. drug use, prostitution) are illegal.
Shame he didn't sell her something else. That way he might stay employed, rather than being thrown out on his ear for giving one inch more customer service than is absolutely mandated by law.
Part of the reason I keep buying games at EB is that their employees are honest. If I ask them "What have you heard about this game?" they won't hesitate to tell me if they didn't think it was very good.
Shut up, you fucking racist piece of shit.
Uh, okay dude. Are you going to put down the popcan pipe full of PCP and explain what that's supposed to mean, or do I get to play guessing games?
would it make any sense if I hadn't finished Idoru?
I think so. IMO both of his trilogies are set up so that you get the most out of them by reading all three, but you can still enjoy them individually.
It appears that Chris Cunningham [director-file.com] is still involved with the project (as of May '02), which is a good sign.
The first time I saw the mention of a Neuromancer movie was as a sticker on the box for the videogame version when I bought it in fifth grade (~1988). I stopped holding my breath a long time ago.
I didn't even bother with All Tomorrow's Parties.
That's a pity, because ATP far surpasses VL and Idoru.
I've loved everything I've read of Gibson's, but those two seemed to be the most conventional in terms of style. All Tomorrow's Parties is like some kind of hybrid of a science fiction novel and a poem. I was very pleased.
Very few Mac people ever upgrade their OS independantly of the hardware.
WTF? Every Mac person I've known (including myself, when I used to run a small network of them for a student newspaper) kept up to date with the latest OS. This was all pre-OS X (workstation), of course, but I can't imagine things have changed *that* much.
You might want to check your sources, as NO virus to knowledge has nor will be able to destroy a Hard Drive or BIOS on the physical level.
Overwriting the BIOS with garbage is as good as destroying it, unless you have a system with dual BIOS chips. If you can't boot to DOS, you can't re-flash it with the correct software.
Why should it be that way?
Given that the forward button can only take you to one place (unless you want it to open a bunch of new browser windows when you click it), how else would it work, logically?
Maybe I haven't had enough caffeine today, but I'm not understanding what this team has changed, exactly.
Every browser I've ever used has a back button that takes you through the history of every page you've visited, not just index pages.
What am I missing here?
What's the best way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases? Condoms or Abstinence?
That's a straw man. The real question is "Which are teenagers more likely to use?" and the answer is obvious.
I've been looking into moving to Switzerland
I was thinking of Britain or Germany. But then I remembered that there are a *lot* of people who feel similarly. It wouldn't be possible for us all to move over there. Besides, my family has been on this continent for almost four centuries.
I figure the best bet is to split the US into at least three countries. The South has always wanted to be their own anyway, so it could be them, the Free West and the In The Image of Dubyah East. Kind of like how Deutschland was, except the wall would be of mutual benefit.
Of course, we all know what happened the last time part of the US tried to secede. Obviously someone would have to convert the better part of DC into green glass for this plan to succeed.