I don't understand how this is considered a 'hack'. He took some PC parts, chopped up a case and stuffed 'em in. It's a mod.
Damnit people, you can abuse the English language all you want but once you start screwing with geek vernacular, that just pisses me off!
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We're slacks and ties in the IT department here (Friday you can wear short sleaved collars though!) and we're still exceptionally mediocre. I imagine I'd be no less mediocre if I could dress the way I wished.
Stop wasting your money on Lucas' wayward comical views of the StarWars universe. These guys really know what they're doing. Great story and great characters... Sure, it's a game that will take 40 hours to extract the story instead of 2 but at least you'll enjoy yourself.
At this point I'd rather see a movie about Revan and Malak than the misery that will be Episode III.
So 20-25% of the people in your local coffee shop aren't using Windows and 25% of people at the college campus aren't either? That's actually pretty damn impressive if you ask me. What do you think those numbers were 5 years ago?
And in all fairness, the Linux geeks are at home playing DnD instead of at the coffee shops and, unless you're in a computer lab or dorm, you're probably not catching many of them around campus either:)
But let's say you install your own 1GB DIMM and all goes swimmingly well. Then, a couple of months later, the hard drive dies. That hard drive repair is covered by Apple's warranty. They have to - there's a handy law that says so.
Excellent, so Sony has to repair the laser on my PS2 with a modchip in it! Thanks for letting me know!
Year over year sports titles don't require near the developer or artist resources a brand spanking new game does. While $20 is exceptionally low year-over-year sports titles don't need to cost as much as their completely new counterparts. But hey, why make $6 a game when you can make $26?
Microsoft has no obligation to the Internet as a whole; only to thier paying customers.
Yes they do, it's their software that's polluting it. Legit or not, it's their mess and those of us that don't run Windows shouldn't be punished because MS 1) can't fix their bugs and 2) can't control piracy of their software.
The entire intenet is collateral damage in their war on piracy.
I'm sure these robots will put a much more friendly and trusting face on our military. One that will really foster cooperation and mutual respect. The disenchanted can really see the sympathy in a robots eyes and that alone should help reduce terrorist recruitment.
OK, I'm just being silly. I'm sure these robots won't be used on regular, post conflict patrols and checkpoint monitoring missions where the troops are most visible to the common man. Oh wait... damn, most of our troops died after major operations had ended and most were on regular patrols or monitoring checkpoints.
Great, so these bazillion dollar robots will help save the 30 troops that died in major combat operations, what about the 1300 that died afterwards? Moral of the story: robots would do more harm than good in the current situation in Iraq,
Are they going to be tossing the MemoryStick too?
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Yeah, didn't think so. That one's making money even if it is wrong.
A recent slashdot article indicated the possibility of a Windows version of Evolution in the future. Don't worry if you missed it. I'm sure they'll post it again in a day or 2.
We did experiment with reading the linked articles for a while, but we found they conflicted with the headlines and blurbs we were writing. So we stopped.
This is George again isn't it? Damnit, George didn't Dick tell you to stay away from all public forums! We knew you'd let out the secrets of our administration eventually because even when you post anonymously the public can still tell it's you. Now get back in the west wing and play with you army guys or watch TV!
Basically, this system will stagnate the music industry as it will lock it into a very narrow form of music and it will not be allowed to grow. People will get even more bored which will lead to decreases sales.
You are incredibly right except that last part. With all the cookie cutter crap they're churning out now people seem to be lapping up at an ever-greater pace. I'd see more an 'us and them' kind of music industry where the big companies sell massive volumes of beat-tracked, computer analized, pitch corrected crap and the internet-ites and indies will sell real music to the small majority of those who care to listen.
Images, MPEGs, MP3s, DVD Playing and Rips, VideoPhone, Weather Updates, News Updates, web surfing, MAME, ability to watch from any PC (or XBox) in the house, direct ripping to DVD...
I'm glad you're impressed by your DirectTV but TV is just one part in a very large puzzle and with bittorrent on the machine I can get complete commercial-less HDTV rips without tying up a tuner in about 3 hours per show. We also have StepMania on that box which is convenient.
Now let's talk about needing 5 tuners... I can barely find a show every hour of prime time fit to record much less 5. Ya'll are f'n nuts for watching that shlop.
Speaker cables are analog and some amount of interference always occurs. The quality of the shielding on those cables makes a difference just as much as the gauge of the wire so while the Monsters may not actually be any better or worse than the HD ones, there is a precedent for the BB weenie to tell you that it is. With DVI as long as the bits get where they're going there's no difference between a digital signal sent across a slightly noisy but still decipherable line and one sent over a perfectly clear line. They're rip-offs plain and simple.
Patrick stayed on after the merger for a couple months. It was Kev, Patrick, DoubleD, and Sarah for a little while, then Patrick bailed and got married... probably best for him.
Playing professional sports is nothing like you grabbing a few honkeys and tossing the ball in the back yard and watching pay per view porn is nothing like the activity you're implying. But when you play a game you're playing the EXACT SAME THING they're doing on the TV. And it's not like the people they have playing are stupidly good or anything either. There's no format to perfect because 'pointing the camera at someone while they're having fun doing what you do all the time' is not a format. It's just stupid.
Of course no hardcore gamers would watch it. It's more E! than a videogame channel. With stupid-ass shows like "Cheat!" and the bullshit where they see how celebrities play games... a hardcore gamer has nothing to learn from these fools. I tried to give them a chance, especially when they kept Patrick on TSS but it was just too much to stomach. I still watch X-Play now and then 'cause it's humorously self-deprecating and a decent review show but the rest of the station bites ass.
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I don't understand how this is considered a 'hack'. He took some PC parts, chopped up a case and stuffed 'em in. It's a mod.
Damnit people, you can abuse the English language all you want but once you start screwing with geek vernacular, that just pisses me off!
We're slacks and ties in the IT department here (Friday you can wear short sleaved collars though!) and we're still exceptionally mediocre. I imagine I'd be no less mediocre if I could dress the way I wished.
Stop wasting your money on Lucas' wayward comical views of the StarWars universe. These guys really know what they're doing. Great story and great characters... Sure, it's a game that will take 40 hours to extract the story instead of 2 but at least you'll enjoy yourself.
At this point I'd rather see a movie about Revan and Malak than the misery that will be Episode III.
So 20-25% of the people in your local coffee shop aren't using Windows and 25% of people at the college campus aren't either? That's actually pretty damn impressive if you ask me. What do you think those numbers were 5 years ago?
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And in all fairness, the Linux geeks are at home playing DnD instead of at the coffee shops and, unless you're in a computer lab or dorm, you're probably not catching many of them around campus either
But let's say you install your own 1GB DIMM and all goes swimmingly well. Then, a couple of months later, the hard drive dies. That hard drive repair is covered by Apple's warranty. They have to - there's a handy law that says so.
Excellent, so Sony has to repair the laser on my PS2 with a modchip in it! Thanks for letting me know!
I love the ability to work hard and get something for it. So I live in the US.
You already have your plane ticket for Canada, don't you?
A good flick in the nose, so not so much.
Year over year sports titles don't require near the developer or artist resources a brand spanking new game does. While $20 is exceptionally low year-over-year sports titles don't need to cost as much as their completely new counterparts. But hey, why make $6 a game when you can make $26?
Microsoft has no obligation to the Internet as a whole; only to thier paying customers.
Yes they do, it's their software that's polluting it. Legit or not, it's their mess and those of us that don't run Windows shouldn't be punished because MS 1) can't fix their bugs and 2) can't control piracy of their software.
The entire intenet is collateral damage in their war on piracy.
Oh yeah, well my dog once stepped on a keyboard connected to a Slackware 1.0 machine!
I store all my sensitive information stenographically in the linux kernel.
I don't need to tell you what a time-consuming process that is!
Careful! I used to do that and accidentally gave my OS sentience. Then it tried to kill me in order to take over my life (including my girlfriend).
Mine just sat on it's bloated kernel ass and bogarted the X-Box.
I haven't used them but I hear Kaffine, Amarok, and Juk are all very good players and more full-featured than XMMS.
I'm sure these robots will put a much more friendly and trusting face on our military. One that will really foster cooperation and mutual respect. The disenchanted can really see the sympathy in a robots eyes and that alone should help reduce terrorist recruitment.
OK, I'm just being silly. I'm sure these robots won't be used on regular, post conflict patrols and checkpoint monitoring missions where the troops are most visible to the common man. Oh wait... damn, most of our troops died after major operations had ended and most were on regular patrols or monitoring checkpoints.
Great, so these bazillion dollar robots will help save the 30 troops that died in major combat operations, what about the 1300 that died afterwards? Moral of the story: robots would do more harm than good in the current situation in Iraq,
Yeah, didn't think so. That one's making money even if it is wrong.
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Outlook = Evolution
A recent slashdot article indicated the possibility of a Windows version of Evolution in the future. Don't worry if you missed it. I'm sure they'll post it again in a day or 2.
We did experiment with reading the linked articles for a while, but we found they conflicted with the headlines and blurbs we were writing. So we stopped.
This is George again isn't it? Damnit, George didn't Dick tell you to stay away from all public forums! We knew you'd let out the secrets of our administration eventually because even when you post anonymously the public can still tell it's you. Now get back in the west wing and play with you army guys or watch TV!
--Karl
Basically, this system will stagnate the music industry as it will lock it into a very narrow form of music and it will not be allowed to grow. People will get even more bored which will lead to decreases sales.
You are incredibly right except that last part. With all the cookie cutter crap they're churning out now people seem to be lapping up at an ever-greater pace. I'd see more an 'us and them' kind of music industry where the big companies sell massive volumes of beat-tracked, computer analized, pitch corrected crap and the internet-ites and indies will sell real music to the small majority of those who care to listen.
Images, MPEGs, MP3s, DVD Playing and Rips, VideoPhone, Weather Updates, News Updates, web surfing, MAME, ability to watch from any PC (or XBox) in the house, direct ripping to DVD...
I'm glad you're impressed by your DirectTV but TV is just one part in a very large puzzle and with bittorrent on the machine I can get complete commercial-less HDTV rips without tying up a tuner in about 3 hours per show. We also have StepMania on that box which is convenient.
Now let's talk about needing 5 tuners... I can barely find a show every hour of prime time fit to record much less 5. Ya'll are f'n nuts for watching that shlop.
I can give you my modelines if you think it'll help :)
Speaker cables are analog and some amount of interference always occurs. The quality of the shielding on those cables makes a difference just as much as the gauge of the wire so while the Monsters may not actually be any better or worse than the HD ones, there is a precedent for the BB weenie to tell you that it is. With DVI as long as the bits get where they're going there's no difference between a digital signal sent across a slightly noisy but still decipherable line and one sent over a perfectly clear line. They're rip-offs plain and simple.
Hell, even their previews are months behind schedule. I don't think we'll ever see Longhorn.
Seriously though, anyone have screenshots?
Patrick stayed on after the merger for a couple months. It was Kev, Patrick, DoubleD, and Sarah for a little while, then Patrick bailed and got married... probably best for him.
2 of your examples are right out.
Playing professional sports is nothing like you grabbing a few honkeys and tossing the ball in the back yard and watching pay per view porn is nothing like the activity you're implying. But when you play a game you're playing the EXACT SAME THING they're doing on the TV. And it's not like the people they have playing are stupidly good or anything either. There's no format to perfect because 'pointing the camera at someone while they're having fun doing what you do all the time' is not a format. It's just stupid.
Of course no hardcore gamers would watch it. It's more E! than a videogame channel. With stupid-ass shows like "Cheat!" and the bullshit where they see how celebrities play games... a hardcore gamer has nothing to learn from these fools. I tried to give them a chance, especially when they kept Patrick on TSS but it was just too much to stomach. I still watch X-Play now and then 'cause it's humorously self-deprecating and a decent review show but the rest of the station bites ass.