When 90% of who I'm abusing are pro-republican and pro-bush, yes. Especially when the remaining 10% are laughing with me because they understand the joke.
I can't possibly believe that an Apocalypse Now director's cut would be bad...Maybe you didn't like it as much - maybe the pacing is different - but that doesn't make it bad.
Well, when you finally do see it. Please remember your comment during the french plantation scene, or the surfboard chase scene, or the boat crew fscking the playboy bunnies scene.
The last week I've been hacking the WC3 counter-strike servers using the name "George W. Bush". My primary MO for cheating has been:
For some people the fun is in "being evil" by cheating and causing others to have less fun.
Though mostly it's been fueled by a desire for retribution on my part. I'm very fond of reminding the players that I'm their president, and if they want me gone they have to impeach me. Or if I'm feeling extra saucy I tell them it's their turn to play the Iraqis.
I freely admit that I'm cheating in the game, and everyone takes turns trying to insult me or talk me into leaving. This of course just makes me enjoy cheating all the more. The last few days I've perfected my cheating method so that I can usually get 50 kills for every 1 time I die. And when I join a server with 32 people who've been playing for the last hour or so, it fscked up the mix very effectively.
I've been playing counter-strike for over 3 years now, but I've never been really motivated to cheat. What's happening in this world, and in this country, has given my conscience more than enough breathing room to cheat however. This last week or two has been my way of being politically active. I figure if I can get enough people to loath the very sight of the name "George W. Bush"...well...I've done my part. Most of these 14yr old kids I play against are just left of nazis, because their rich white daddies told them that "whiney liberals" are bad. Well, it's been a hell of a lot of fun hearing these conservative trouser stains whining:).
There's nothing more symbolic than a guy named GWB annihilating the other team in less than 30 seconds. If they bitch I just respond by saying that a 400 Billion dollar defense budget buys a hell of a lot of hacks. In all honesty I've found the "virtual battlefield" of cs the perfect place to concretely demonstrate what it is to be in a hopeless conflict. This is an experience that most americans are clueless about, and most iraqis are getting no sympathy for.
(for those "patriots" with the emotional desire to mod me down, I would request that you shirk your duty of silencing me. Instead read my little anecdote as a window into the mind of a "traitor")
Star Wars....The original one with the crappy special effects and terrible acting
OK, so this is a quote from an AC troll, but I think it's probably my number one choice. The recent trend of "directors cuts" and "digital remastering" has done far more damage than good to most films. Specifically films like "Apocalypse Now" and "The Exorcist", two monumental films, have been marred by the directors cut. The original starwars trilogy is no different.
These were great great films. They had a rhythm to them which made them great films. Any film editor will tell you that you can't just jump in and insert 5 minutes of film here and there. It's a very fine art, and something which is largely neglected in these new "modified" film versions. In short, if it aint broke don't fix it. These films are classics, and it's a terrible thing to lose classics to the egotism/greed of hollywood.
Now we will know who to boycott in protest of braindead copy protection schemes
What I can't understand is why Democrat's are supporting this bill. Last time I checked, the democratic party favored the rights of the worker over the corporatation. Maybe these dems are wolves in sheeps clothing. Or they are very confused about who benefits from copyrighting.
The vast majority of copyrighted material is owned exclusively by corporations. If copyrights last for 50plus years, that's insane. That means if some company hires a smart engineer, who builds a better mousetrap, they get to reap the revenues of his brilliance for the next 50 years. Do you think that engineer will see a penny of it? Copyright was meant to reward the creative genius of those individuals who benefit our society by what they create. Very very very rarely is that happening today. Workers are indentured servents, and corporations get rewarded for the workers creation. The corporate fat-cat gets richer, and the engineers and scientists who are doing the actual work are seeing none of it.
Truth is, overclocking is a very healthy thing for the PC industry.
The reason is that noone, except maybe Transmeta, has made any significant headway in making chips run cooler. Temperature management is just as important as transistor density. We all know that the best way to improve the performance of a processer is to supercool it.
Thanks to overclockers, there are now dozens of independant companies building supercooling products for processors. That wouldn't happen if overclocking was "disabled" as an industry standard. Ten years from now I'd love to have the latest and greatest chip, but I'd also like to know I have the option of buying a $50 kit that will nearly double the speed of my system.
Supercooling your PC is just like installing a supercharger on your car. The only difference is that a supercharger costs $500, and a supercooler may end up costing next to nothing. It's a win-win situation.
Look, get one of these if that's what you're into. Myself, I just want it to do stuff for me around the house. The fact that it can converse and walk up stairs is really just a novelty. These are the things I need done:
Take out the trash. Cook a tv dinner. Get me a beer from the fridge. Draw tapwater into a glass and bring it to me. Answer the phone. Bring me the remote. Get my mail/newspaper. Do my laundry. Make my bed. Dust the house. Vacuum the house. Clean my bathroom and kitchen.
It's probably Sony's vision to create a robot that can do the above, but they don't appear to be any closer than when they started.
This may be off-topic but I've got a bone to pick with the MST3K crowd. The first few seasons of MST3K were absolutely brilliant. The show was fresh, and it was driven by non-other than Joel Hodgson, the original brainchild of MST3K.
Then by whatever cous-de-gras, Joel is written out of the show, and never heard from again. That part was bad enough for many of the original MST3K crowd, but by far the worst is that we'll probably never see those shows again.
Mike Nielson owns MST3K, and he wants everyone to remember that it's his show...even though it wasn't. We'll never see those original classic episodes because Mike's ego won't allow him to admit that Joel was just plain funnier, and more likeable.
MST3K with Joel was great tv, and great fun. Unfortunately it's been surgically removed from history. I'd like to see the Sci-Fi channel buy the rights to MST3K, just so I could see those first few seasons again.
Don't worry, you're not alone. Here's a recent quote from Wil Wheaton's website/blog: Acting veteran William Shatner may have gained fame by starring in the Star Trek series - but he believes the show is now "old hat." The 71-year-old star first shot to fame as Captain James T. Kirk in the 1966 TV series, but now he refuses to watch the many spin-off programs and films, believing they've lost what made them great. He says, "It needs something new. The people responsible for it have lost its way and they need to find it again. They need a whole new group of talent to give a fresh approach. By doing too many things, they have lost Star Trek's way because of greed."
Noone modded this AC up, so I'm just gonna quote him word for word:
" Tell my friends who are unemployed, at last count more than 5... Tell the people like me who were unemployed for a year, and finally landed a job making half of what they were before. Tell the people like me who have been trying to get lower interest rates on some debt, and the company asks "Why did you run up so much debt so fast?" and all you can do is wonder if they had been paying attention lately. Tell the people who have had to sell their hobbies, so they could pay for their child's daycare. The situation flat out sucks, and is not getting better. But sure, we can blow billions on a war no one needs and 75% of the WORLD doesn't want. But fsck the schools and jobs, and fsck the taxpayers. Fsck the economy damnit, we want WAR!"
Sure it's great work, if you don't mind the fact that you're supporting a militaristic regime. There's plenty of guys just whistling away while coding that new infra-red body-heat-seaking guideance system. Kills "terrorists" twice as quick, for old Georgie boy.
If I did that kind of work, I'd put a gun to my head.
In what world do we live in where a college graduate has to choose between flipping burgers or building a weapons system to survive?
Hehe, here's a MP3 you might like. Some guy had a dormmate across the hall from him who played CS a lot, so he recorded him for samples. Funny as shit.
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lol
When 90% of who I'm abusing are pro-republican and pro-bush, yes. Especially when the remaining 10% are laughing with me because they understand the joke.
I can't possibly believe that an Apocalypse Now director's cut would be bad...Maybe you didn't like it as much - maybe the pacing is different - but that doesn't make it bad.
Well, when you finally do see it. Please remember your comment during the french plantation scene, or the surfboard chase scene, or the boat crew fscking the playboy bunnies scene.
The last week I've been hacking the WC3 counter-strike servers using the name "George W. Bush". My primary MO for cheating has been:
:).
For some people the fun is in "being evil" by cheating and causing others to have less fun.
Though mostly it's been fueled by a desire for retribution on my part. I'm very fond of reminding the players that I'm their president, and if they want me gone they have to impeach me. Or if I'm feeling extra saucy I tell them it's their turn to play the Iraqis.
I freely admit that I'm cheating in the game, and everyone takes turns trying to insult me or talk me into leaving. This of course just makes me enjoy cheating all the more. The last few days I've perfected my cheating method so that I can usually get 50 kills for every 1 time I die. And when I join a server with 32 people who've been playing for the last hour or so, it fscked up the mix very effectively.
I've been playing counter-strike for over 3 years now, but I've never been really motivated to cheat. What's happening in this world, and in this country, has given my conscience more than enough breathing room to cheat however. This last week or two has been my way of being politically active. I figure if I can get enough people to loath the very sight of the name "George W. Bush"...well...I've done my part. Most of these 14yr old kids I play against are just left of nazis, because their rich white daddies told them that "whiney liberals" are bad. Well, it's been a hell of a lot of fun hearing these conservative trouser stains whining
There's nothing more symbolic than a guy named GWB annihilating the other team in less than 30 seconds. If they bitch I just respond by saying that a 400 Billion dollar defense budget buys a hell of a lot of hacks. In all honesty I've found the "virtual battlefield" of cs the perfect place to concretely demonstrate what it is to be in a hopeless conflict. This is an experience that most americans are clueless about, and most iraqis are getting no sympathy for.
(for those "patriots" with the emotional desire to mod me down, I would request that you shirk your duty of silencing me. Instead read my little anecdote as a window into the mind of a "traitor")
Wait I'm confused, isn't this a bad thing?
Yes it's bad.
Star Wars....The original one with the crappy special effects and terrible acting
OK, so this is a quote from an AC troll, but I think it's probably my number one choice. The recent trend of "directors cuts" and "digital remastering" has done far more damage than good to most films. Specifically films like "Apocalypse Now" and "The Exorcist", two monumental films, have been marred by the directors cut. The original starwars trilogy is no different.
These were great great films. They had a rhythm to them which made them great films. Any film editor will tell you that you can't just jump in and insert 5 minutes of film here and there. It's a very fine art, and something which is largely neglected in these new "modified" film versions. In short, if it aint broke don't fix it. These films are classics, and it's a terrible thing to lose classics to the egotism/greed of hollywood.
Now we will know who to boycott in protest of braindead copy protection schemes
What I can't understand is why Democrat's are supporting this bill. Last time I checked, the democratic party favored the rights of the worker over the corporatation. Maybe these dems are wolves in sheeps clothing. Or they are very confused about who benefits from copyrighting.
The vast majority of copyrighted material is owned exclusively by corporations. If copyrights last for 50plus years, that's insane. That means if some company hires a smart engineer, who builds a better mousetrap, they get to reap the revenues of his brilliance for the next 50 years. Do you think that engineer will see a penny of it? Copyright was meant to reward the creative genius of those individuals who benefit our society by what they create. Very very very rarely is that happening today. Workers are indentured servents, and corporations get rewarded for the workers creation. The corporate fat-cat gets richer, and the engineers and scientists who are doing the actual work are seeing none of it.
Call me crazy, but I think the first 30 minutes of Akira would suit your taste.
For real? They actually do this? Show us some proof.
The DVD will be out in three weeks
Did they ever fix that "red tint" problem?
Truth is, overclocking is a very healthy thing for the PC industry.
The reason is that noone, except maybe Transmeta, has made any significant headway in making chips run cooler. Temperature management is just as important as transistor density. We all know that the best way to improve the performance of a processer is to supercool it.
Thanks to overclockers, there are now dozens of independant companies building supercooling products for processors. That wouldn't happen if overclocking was "disabled" as an industry standard. Ten years from now I'd love to have the latest and greatest chip, but I'd also like to know I have the option of buying a $50 kit that will nearly double the speed of my system.
Supercooling your PC is just like installing a supercharger on your car. The only difference is that a supercharger costs $500, and a supercooler may end up costing next to nothing. It's a win-win situation.
Is it just me, or does...Not sound very sexy?
Look, get one of these if that's what you're into. Myself, I just want it to do stuff for me around the house. The fact that it can converse and walk up stairs is really just a novelty. These are the things I need done:
Take out the trash.
Cook a tv dinner.
Get me a beer from the fridge.
Draw tapwater into a glass and bring it to me.
Answer the phone.
Bring me the remote.
Get my mail/newspaper.
Do my laundry.
Make my bed.
Dust the house.
Vacuum the house.
Clean my bathroom and kitchen.
It's probably Sony's vision to create a robot that can do the above, but they don't appear to be any closer than when they started.
It's exactly the details that make it wonderful.
As Kirosawa used to say...
Q: What's the message of your movie?
Kirosawa: If I could answer that, I would have printed it on a card and held it up in front of the camera.
See this movie. It's art, and it's very finely crafted. Truly a masterpiece.
This, and the Two Towers are the best films I've seen in the last year.
What about...saturday morning MST3K?
This may be off-topic but I've got a bone to pick with the MST3K crowd. The first few seasons of MST3K were absolutely brilliant. The show was fresh, and it was driven by non-other than Joel Hodgson, the original brainchild of MST3K.
Then by whatever cous-de-gras, Joel is written out of the show, and never heard from again. That part was bad enough for many of the original MST3K crowd, but by far the worst is that we'll probably never see those shows again.
Mike Nielson owns MST3K, and he wants everyone to remember that it's his show...even though it wasn't. We'll never see those original classic episodes because Mike's ego won't allow him to admit that Joel was just plain funnier, and more likeable.
MST3K with Joel was great tv, and great fun. Unfortunately it's been surgically removed from history. I'd like to see the Sci-Fi channel buy the rights to MST3K, just so I could see those first few seasons again.
*sigh* OK, I'm done.
Who's with me?
Don't worry, you're not alone. Here's a recent quote from Wil Wheaton's website/blog:
Acting veteran William Shatner may have gained fame by starring in the Star Trek series - but he believes the show is now "old hat." The 71-year-old star first shot to fame as Captain James T. Kirk in the 1966 TV series, but now he refuses to watch the many spin-off programs and films, believing they've lost what made them great. He says, "It needs something new. The people responsible for it have lost its way and they need to find it again. They need a whole new group of talent to give a fresh approach. By doing too many things, they have lost Star Trek's way because of greed."
Noone modded this AC up, so I'm just gonna quote him word for word:
" Tell my friends who are unemployed, at last count more than 5... Tell the people like me who were unemployed for a year, and finally landed a job making half of what they were before. Tell the people like me who have been trying to get lower interest rates on some debt, and the company asks "Why did you run up so much debt so fast?" and all you can do is wonder if they had been paying attention lately. Tell the people who have had to sell their hobbies, so they could pay for their child's daycare. The situation flat out sucks, and is not getting better. But sure, we can blow billions on a war no one needs and 75% of the WORLD doesn't want. But fsck the schools and jobs, and fsck the taxpayers. Fsck the economy damnit, we want WAR!"
Sure it's great work, if you don't mind the fact that you're supporting a militaristic regime. There's plenty of guys just whistling away while coding that new infra-red body-heat-seaking guideance system. Kills "terrorists" twice as quick, for old Georgie boy.
If I did that kind of work, I'd put a gun to my head.
In what world do we live in where a college graduate has to choose between flipping burgers or building a weapons system to survive?
It sounds like most of the hacks were done by script kiddies, so if Reuters has a decent IT staff they were probably fine.
The working definition of decent is being pro-Bush of course.
I think it's because this:
spending hours exploring dungeons and killing monsters is seen as adolescent
Is at about power.
Whereas this:
spending hours making houses and watching simulated people
Is something else. Not sure what yet.
Goddamn SDE where's the fucking article.
OK, in lew of my blunder I went the extra mile and found:
1) A working link.
2) And a bonus interview with the creator.
Please forgive my unl33tlinkingness.
Bah, he passworded it. Oh well.
Hehe, here's a MP3 you might like. Some guy had a dormmate across the hall from him who played CS a lot, so he recorded him for samples. Funny as shit.
The new technique is said to allow conventional TFT LCD manufacturers to convert their facilities over to OLED with relative ease
The real question is, will this mean affordable big screens?
I saw a flatscreen LCD monitor in CompUSA the other day going for $2000. Sure it looked great, but $2000 is wacko. $200 maybe, but not $2000.