Neat: Using the gamepad as a working mouse, scroll with the D pad, click with the A & B buttons; I could see sitting back and actually using that with my laptop.
Cool: Getting the NES Light gun we used to try to shoot that `effing dog with to work on our monitors; Sure, browsing the internet would turn into a game of skill but great fun none the less.
Uh, thats... umm, great, good for you: Putting an already working optical mouse that fits your hands inside of a uncomfortable controller.
Here is an absolutely crazy idea; We have seen the success of illegal P2P sites get funding for servers and bandwidth and whatnot, and we know there is a great demand for game related content (Videos, Mods, Patches, Etc) Since that market is being overloaded by a not so nice company or two; Why doesn't someone make a Torrent site for all of it? People here have the know how, You don't get sued for hosting the files, etc. Its over my head, But I haven't run across anything that fills this niche yet.
Yeah I know I just said, why doesn't someone get up and do it, with no intention of doing it myself; my perfectly reasonable excuse is I don't have the know-how or the resources (or the motivation):D
Shut your face, as someone who is actually still stuck on dialup I find your comments offensive and insensitive; you know full well on your dialup days the downloads you attempt would have taken weeks. And even try to liken it to our suffering when you see speeds in the lower half of a hundred K that might take a couple of hours. For Shame Good sir, For Shame.
(Yeah, I'm planning on suing the government and AT&T for retributions for the hardships and suffering our modem bound people have had to endure.)
Seriously though, the answer to the rare file dilemma is that the website that is hosting the torrents needs to have a server running Bittorent and all the files with intelligent prioritizing of the worst seeded files. So when there are other people to take the load the website can outsource it, when its rare the website will have to share the burden like it would have had to via http anyways.
Okay, Maybe I should have specified, Hotels in America, You need a credit card on file so they can charge for damages if you break anything. I ran into this problem on a road trip a year ago, I had cash, But I had to sleep in my car. Tried a ton of hotels too.
Agreed, But it seems like individual store's "Shrinkage" and also its expenditures on security are not well advertised figures, (rather secret infact) All im saying is companies arent dumb when it comes to protecting their bottom line (how they fare with other issues is up to debate;) but if it didnt make financial sence for them to invest in this, I think its safe to say they wouldnt.
Well, seeing as shoplifting and theft costs american businesses ~11 billion dollars in a year... Im going to have to say investing millions in anti-theft technologies is a pretty good return on the investment.
(Number an average of some statistics I found, ranging between 9 billion and 35 billion.
Seems sort of ridiculous that a company can be worth a third as much when one produces a search engine +other free tools, and another produces an omni-operating system that dominates the world over selling for hundreds of dollars a pop.
(Predicts the day when google as a company doesn't change, but GOOG is constantly decried on TV and the wall street journal "Is google's number up?" "Second stock bubble?" etc, for losing it's investors money.)
quite clearly "Everyone involved here realizes that there's not much we can do against a malicious employee, but we're looking to avoid accidental data loss from USB sticks, and other solid-state storage media. Has anyone on Slashdot dealt with this issue?"
Congratulations, you win the most irrelevant rant this week award, have a gold star!
Not to mention many linux installs give you the option of creating a boot floppy, leaving windows mbr 100% intact, rendering linux invisible to other computer users, and easily started by simply pushing in a disk.
Call me crazy, but doesnt that say they had a net income of 87 million yen this year compared to 33 million last year?
Or is that spanning the previous financial year's time and this years profits are doing much worse, Which wouldnt suprise me, because apparently they had a 163% increase in last year.
Google failed me for once, But could anyone quote me what the price of raw bulk fiber optic cables actualy are. With perhaps a link to a site selling raw cable; (all I could find was premade already for instalation in networking and whatnot cable)
I personally like windows, it does what I need, and it isn't an OS on training wheels or a system for the programmers by the programmers. I spend the vast majority of my time being productive on my computer instead of maintaining it; and with some basic knowledge and tweaking (Tweak UI, some new drivers and some Regedits) a windows box runs very sweetly. The blue screen of death jokes are quite a dead horse, I have experienced a blue screen on three occasions since XP came out and that includes all five of my boxes. Once was because of a beta sound driver, another was because I tried to put in a video card for 98 only; and the other was a poorly made video game. Other than that most application crashes and gentle and no information is lost, The application that crashes most often (and even that isn't frequently) is Firefox; (its probably because of the extensions I have installed) I can't remember a time that I lost what I was typing or the work I was doing. I do my professional video and graphics work on a windows box, and I play and relax on a windows box; I have been a windows user since I tried an as yet unreleased on my grandfather's computer at Compaq. And to those that say windows has stopped progressing, go back and try 3.1.1 try 95; and try to say nothing has happened.
Windows gets its bad name from users who don't know to put up a firewall and current AV software; who willingly install Kazza or Hotbar or whatever Trojan horse of the day. And from poor software written for windows, doing what poor software does best. Crash.
Sure it has security problems, But with proper precautions taken I have never experienced them.
Yeah, It seems like every single reviewer has completely forgotten the true prequel to BF2; Desert Friggin Combat, wasn't it mod of the year for two years straight? Any review that doesn't mention it is really lacking any true insight into the game; I saw some that talked about the "New" unit types like support and special ops and never once mentioned DC
Duh, 86 Percent of Americans were knifed in the face last year alone. Apparently the news stations were going to carry this story, but what with the Michael Jackson thing and all...
Yes, and the average consumer also doesn't prefer to download their films and watch them on the computer. They buy them from Wal-Mart and likely doesn't know there are alternatives
Also if you Google their name (everyone overlooks the paid spot right?) they are the fourth link, with the wonderful entry blurb... "Site Entry
Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service your browser scripting AND... We appreciate your interest in Movielink, and we hope to serve you soon....
movielink.com/ - 16k - Jul 5, 2005 -
Seems like a pretty amateurish way to go about things.
They arent that obscure, being fairly well documented http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes
and I think if you press F2 during startup you get a list of the most common ones.
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Neat: Using the gamepad as a working mouse, scroll with the D pad, click with the A & B buttons; I could see sitting back and actually using that with my laptop. Cool: Getting the NES Light gun we used to try to shoot that `effing dog with to work on our monitors; Sure, browsing the internet would turn into a game of skill but great fun none the less. Uh, thats... umm, great, good for you: Putting an already working optical mouse that fits your hands inside of a uncomfortable controller.
Here is an absolutely crazy idea; We have seen the success of illegal P2P sites get funding for servers and bandwidth and whatnot, and we know there is a great demand for game related content (Videos, Mods, Patches, Etc) Since that market is being overloaded by a not so nice company or two; Why doesn't someone make a Torrent site for all of it? People here have the know how, You don't get sued for hosting the files, etc. Its over my head, But I haven't run across anything that fills this niche yet.
:D
Yeah I know I just said, why doesn't someone get up and do it, with no intention of doing it myself; my perfectly reasonable excuse is I don't have the know-how or the resources (or the motivation)
Shut your face, as someone who is actually still stuck on dialup I find your comments offensive and insensitive; you know full well on your dialup days the downloads you attempt would have taken weeks. And even try to liken it to our suffering when you see speeds in the lower half of a hundred K that might take a couple of hours. For Shame Good sir, For Shame.
(Yeah, I'm planning on suing the government and AT&T for retributions for the hardships and suffering our modem bound people have had to endure.)
Seriously though, the answer to the rare file dilemma is that the website that is hosting the torrents needs to have a server running Bittorent and all the files with intelligent prioritizing of the worst seeded files. So when there are other people to take the load the website can outsource it, when its rare the website will have to share the burden like it would have had to via http anyways.
Okay Mods, Can we please start modding each and every one of these groaningly unamusing blue screen of death jokes redundant and unfunny?
Okay, Maybe I should have specified, Hotels in America, You need a credit card on file so they can charge for damages if you break anything. I ran into this problem on a road trip a year ago, I had cash, But I had to sleep in my car. Tried a ton of hotels too.
Can you book any decent* hotel without a credit card?
Nope.
Decent defined as a national chain or hotel that does not charge 'by the hour' have vibrating beds and a tub filled with roaches.
Agreed, But it seems like individual store's "Shrinkage" and also its expenditures on security are not well advertised figures, (rather secret infact) All im saying is companies arent dumb when it comes to protecting their bottom line (how they fare with other issues is up to debate ;) but if it didnt make financial sence for them to invest in this, I think its safe to say they wouldnt.
Well, seeing as shoplifting and theft costs american businesses ~11 billion dollars in a year... Im going to have to say investing millions in anti-theft technologies is a pretty good return on the investment.
(Number an average of some statistics I found, ranging between 9 billion and 35 billion.
Seems sort of ridiculous that a company can be worth a third as much when one produces a search engine +other free tools, and another produces an omni-operating system that dominates the world over selling for hundreds of dollars a pop.
(Predicts the day when google as a company doesn't change, but GOOG is constantly decried on TV and the wall street journal "Is google's number up?" "Second stock bubble?" etc, for losing it's investors money.)
Dude, did you even read the effing summary?
quite clearly "Everyone involved here realizes that there's not much we can do against a malicious employee, but we're looking to avoid accidental data loss from USB sticks, and other solid-state storage media. Has anyone on Slashdot dealt with this issue?"
Congratulations, you win the most irrelevant rant this week award, have a gold star!
Not to mention many linux installs give you the option of creating a boot floppy, leaving windows mbr 100% intact, rendering linux invisible to other computer users, and easily started by simply pushing in a disk.
No, its sci fi friday, duh, this site is dead when battlestar galactica is on ;)
Call me crazy, but doesnt that say they had a net income of 87 million yen this year compared to 33 million last year?
Or is that spanning the previous financial year's time and this years profits are doing much worse, Which wouldnt suprise me, because apparently they had a 163% increase in last year.
Google failed me for once, But could anyone quote me what the price of raw bulk fiber optic cables actualy are. With perhaps a link to a site selling raw cable; (all I could find was premade already for instalation in networking and whatnot cable)
-A Test-
I personally like windows, it does what I need, and it isn't an OS on training wheels or a system for the programmers by the programmers. I spend the vast majority of my time being productive on my computer instead of maintaining it; and with some basic knowledge and tweaking (Tweak UI, some new drivers and some Regedits) a windows box runs very sweetly. The blue screen of death jokes are quite a dead horse, I have experienced a blue screen on three occasions since XP came out and that includes all five of my boxes. Once was because of a beta sound driver, another was because I tried to put in a video card for 98 only; and the other was a poorly made video game. Other than that most application crashes and gentle and no information is lost, The application that crashes most often (and even that isn't frequently) is Firefox; (its probably because of the extensions I have installed) I can't remember a time that I lost what I was typing or the work I was doing. I do my professional video and graphics work on a windows box, and I play and relax on a windows box; I have been a windows user since I tried an as yet unreleased on my grandfather's computer at Compaq. And to those that say windows has stopped progressing, go back and try 3.1.1 try 95; and try to say nothing has happened.
Windows gets its bad name from users who don't know to put up a firewall and current AV software; who willingly install Kazza or Hotbar or whatever Trojan horse of the day. And from poor software written for windows, doing what poor software does best. Crash.
Sure it has security problems, But with proper precautions taken I have never experienced them.
-A Test-
Yeah, It seems like every single reviewer has completely forgotten the true prequel to BF2; Desert Friggin Combat, wasn't it mod of the year for two years straight? Any review that doesn't mention it is really lacking any true insight into the game; I saw some that talked about the "New" unit types like support and special ops and never once mentioned DC
I mean just look at this screenshot, http://www.desertcombat.com/navyseals_DCSite.jpg It would be like reviewing counterstrike source and not mentioning counterstrike.
Seriously though, after doing some research this seems to be the best source of info I could find http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/cius_03 /xl/03tbl01.xls
(It's an Excel file, but loads fine in OO)
It only goes to 2003, seems like 2004 data is still preliminary
Duh, 86 Percent of Americans were knifed in the face last year alone. Apparently the news stations were going to carry this story, but what with the Michael Jackson thing and all...
Yes, and the average consumer also doesn't prefer to download their films and watch them on the computer. They buy them from Wal-Mart and likely doesn't know there are alternatives
... We appreciate your interest in Movielink, and we hope to serve you soon. ...
movielink.com/ - 16k - Jul 5, 2005 -
Also if you Google their name (everyone overlooks the paid spot right?) they are the fourth link, with the wonderful entry blurb... "Site Entry Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service your browser scripting AND
Seems like a pretty amateurish way to go about things.
Holy crap, I can register broca.tel!
I'm so going to get bought out by heavy fabric with raised designs producers for mad $$$$
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/brocatel
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.502866,-0.122738 &spn=0.057659,0.141226&hl=en
Anyone want to write a game of Scotland Yard? ;)
They arent that obscure, being fairly well documented http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes and I think if you press F2 during startup you get a list of the most common ones.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/21/ 0050255&tid=190
So dont worry; we can have the best of both worlds.
Correct me if im wrong, but don't most Knoppix distros default to german anyways; you just use the "lang=us" Cheat code at boot to get it in english.
So it _might_ be safe to download from a german site, thanks to those awesome cheat codes.
(let me hear a hip-hip-horrah for 'failsafe')
You could try sending them stuff like Guns & Ammo
And here I was thinking that was one of the things the government provided.
Billions of dollars and where is it going; sheesh.