I recieved a ps2 for xmas the first year it was released. After boxing day went out and bout a second controller, memory cards and the dvd remote. But then nothing... All the games sucked there was not a single sony game (new or old) that matched the n64s killer apps like Goldeneye, Zelda, Diddy Kong Racing, that demolition one etc etc.. I tried playing a few old ps1 games like Final Fantasy but of course they were scratched on the second disk or so making it impossible to play.
So I never bought a game for my ps2. If my friends came around we watched a DVD on it (maybe) or more likely we played Perfect Dark or Super Smash Bros.
But then GTA3 came out... and it almost got me to finally buy a game, luckily my friend lent it to me so i played and played till it got boring... only so many times you can shoot down helicopters... But then I decided that after owning the console for 2 years and only ever liking one game enough to buy it that it was the end of the road and I sold it on ebay.
GTA3 is definately the best game sony has... but its not worth buying a ps2 when compared to halo or the multitude of PC games... even Gamecube Smash Bros is better.
And I'm quite sure I'd prefer playing nintendo games on my nokia 3650 to shelling out for a PSP. GTA3 or no.
"theater popcorn"(no the microwave stuff isn't the same)
Your right, microwave stuff hasn't been sitting in a dingy cabinet for a day or two, and is actually warm...
Then again maybe us Australians just dont stand up for ourselves, we pay $5 for a popcorn and take what we're given (crap), I guess if that happened in the US there would be riots!
and you are in which country?.... It was released 2 weeks ago in Australia... of all places
Of course its completely sold out... reminds me i need to go put a deposit down on a copy or i'll never have it for Christmas
But WC3.... now that brings back memories... played it on my macintosh powerPC 100mhz with 17inch trinitron av monitor, only game that ever made me really scared (when the kilrathi ace stabs his girlfriend in the stomach and lifts her up with his claws, the game cuts back to the mission, select all missiles and go for revenge!!!)
Morally? The morality here is pretty complicated but I don't see how uploading could be imoral but downloading not. The real question to me (and the courts) is the legality. In a simple electronic upload/download transfer, where and when does the illegal copy happen?
When you upload in Bit Torrent its highly unlikely that you would upload the entire file to someone (unless seeding) most of the time you would only send small chunks of files... could this potentially allow you to claim fair use? As you are only really sending other people "samples"...
oh yes dont worry about that... as part of our welfare system you are forced to attend job searching sessions (basicly you are supervised while you send your resume via email to a million and one jobs that wont take you anyway but you have to make up a quota of job applications per day or you get cut off)
Whilst looking through a website of a large clothing company the governments efficient little filter booted us off because we clicked on a link that said "girls fashions"
meanwhile thanks to the crude keyword filtering some dropkicks were actively looking at porn and getting welfare payments for it... and dont worry, i start work at a real job on saturday...
The filesize was alright though, 30 megs isn't so bad on dialup, i remember this was before divx... it was just the quality was aweful. These days average episode size is 150mb in divx so i guess I better get broadband connected again (just moved)
Actually I remember Matt Stone and Trey Parker giving an interview saying they liked that people were downloading episodes and didn't have a problem with it...
Though I dont doubt that comedy central wasn't so happy..
I just did a clean install, xp, service pack 2 and the latest firefox.
For the first few days I had the system completely freezing reminding me of the bad old days of win 95/98. However for some reason I had a message to run chkdsk and it seems to have fixed itself
The best Firefox so far for me has been 0.9 (if it was even called firefox back then) but any firefox has been better than allowing access to or even using MSIE
Charlie again went back to weather Star wars had kept George from doing other things. George said that he wants to do other movies, but that star wars is ALL consuming. He is now being released from that obligation. There will be NO MORE, there no reason to do more! He said he has some things lined up. A film on the Tuskeegee Airmen that he has been trying to get dome for some time. TV shows, he loves TV as a medium. Also to go with the Young Indy DVDs, he's working on 100 documentaries dealing with historical people and places in the Young Indy series.
is it just me or does that give the impression that once ep3 is finished there is no more star wars and he is actually doing different TV shows?
not that i'd trust him as far as i could throw him after seeing jar jar
"In this case, the U.S. (a country of 200+ million people currently exerting its military dominance in 2 other countries) asked Australia (a country of 20 million people and comparably little world impact) to extradite him."
I don't know about Mississippi but in Alabama it's exactly as you describe, except:
1. you can get wine, as well as beer, in the grocery store;
2. no alcoholic beverages sold on Sunday
I haven't lived there in a long time so it's possible that item 2 has changed. But it doesn't sound like Oregon is any worse than Southern states with similar state-run alcohol retail.
and i get annoyed when the only day i cant buy alcohol 7am-12pm (or 24 hours if you include nightclubs) is good friday, oh and from 12pm-12am on our national war memorial day (anzac day)
There's what I might call a "comfort zone" beyond which any faster is indeed irrelevant. An old survey set it at something like 256kbps, it's maybe still that for most web surfing.
Tolerances will vary depending on content - but unless you're a hardcore MPEG/DivX downloader then higher than 512 is not particularly different *today* until multimedia content producers force higher bandwidth, and this is not worth it for most, until enough people have very high speed access and the infrastructure to handle it also.
but what about pr0n? that needs bandwidth you know
this guy trying to justify himself by saying that AOL spams customers is like any mass-murderer (hitler, pal-pot, saddam etc) saying its okay for our country to engage in genocide, look at america, they have the death penalty!
first time a game really freaked me out, when you confront the kilrathi ace and it cuts to a video of angel dying at his hands...erm claws --- cuts back to the game and your on his tail...
i was all fired up, sweating, adrenaline pumping etc... select all missiles and guns and let loose;)
that game was hell cool, and it was on macintosh:D
Cars arnt just for transportation... I spend heaps of time mucking around with my car...
Driving is actually quite fun and i figure that IC cars arnt going to be around for my entire lifetime - they are far too inefficient... incidently when are the oil supplies going to run out? as a child I read something like 2020
i know it wouldn't be any good as a file server...
but if you hooked this thing up to a network you could easily use another computer as a file server to store mp3s and the like and eliminate the need for the mini-itx to have a hard drive
That would suit the home entertianment job just fine.
btw i thought of it because my friend uses his xbox to watch divx he has downloaded onto his pc. xboxes are probably cheaper for the job
Maybe they can use this flooding to further develop filtering for spamming and flooding.
I dunno probably a stupid idea but you have to look for the postives in a situation like this. Both the browser and the database are getting publicity.
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I'd be organising a weekly Raid on Booty Bay
I recieved a ps2 for xmas the first year it was released. After boxing day went out and bout a second controller, memory cards and the dvd remote. But then nothing... All the games sucked there was not a single sony game (new or old) that matched the n64s killer apps like Goldeneye, Zelda, Diddy Kong Racing, that demolition one etc etc.. I tried playing a few old ps1 games like Final Fantasy but of course they were scratched on the second disk or so making it impossible to play.
So I never bought a game for my ps2. If my friends came around we watched a DVD on it (maybe) or more likely we played Perfect Dark or Super Smash Bros.
But then GTA3 came out... and it almost got me to finally buy a game, luckily my friend lent it to me so i played and played till it got boring... only so many times you can shoot down helicopters... But then I decided that after owning the console for 2 years and only ever liking one game enough to buy it that it was the end of the road and I sold it on ebay.
GTA3 is definately the best game sony has... but its not worth buying a ps2 when compared to halo or the multitude of PC games... even Gamecube Smash Bros is better.
And I'm quite sure I'd prefer playing nintendo games on my nokia 3650 to shelling out for a PSP. GTA3 or no.
Your right, microwave stuff hasn't been sitting in a dingy cabinet for a day or two, and is actually warm...
Then again maybe us Australians just dont stand up for ourselves, we pay $5 for a popcorn and take what we're given (crap), I guess if that happened in the US there would be riots!
Of course its completely sold out... reminds me i need to go put a deposit down on a copy or i'll never have it for Christmas
But WC3.... now that brings back memories... played it on my macintosh powerPC 100mhz with 17inch trinitron av monitor, only game that ever made me really scared (when the kilrathi ace stabs his girlfriend in the stomach and lifts her up with his claws, the game cuts back to the mission, select all missiles and go for revenge!!!)
When you upload in Bit Torrent its highly unlikely that you would upload the entire file to someone (unless seeding) most of the time you would only send small chunks of files... could this potentially allow you to claim fair use? As you are only really sending other people "samples"...
The people who that 98% represents should just turn the damn thing off if they are not happy with what is on it.
Whilst looking through a website of a large clothing company the governments efficient little filter booted us off because we clicked on a link that said "girls fashions"
meanwhile thanks to the crude keyword filtering some dropkicks were actively looking at porn and getting welfare payments for it... and dont worry, i start work at a real job on saturday...
Actually I remember Matt Stone and Trey Parker giving an interview saying they liked that people were downloading episodes and didn't have a problem with it...
Though I dont doubt that comedy central wasn't so happy..
For the first few days I had the system completely freezing reminding me of the bad old days of win 95/98. However for some reason I had a message to run chkdsk and it seems to have fixed itself
The best Firefox so far for me has been 0.9 (if it was even called firefox back then) but any firefox has been better than allowing access to or even using MSIE
is it just me or does that give the impression that once ep3 is finished there is no more star wars and he is actually doing different TV shows?
not that i'd trust him as far as i could throw him after seeing jar jar
oh yeah, thats right, the whole republic turned empire thingy was jar jar's doing wasn't it?
From http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=154 :
try drinking beer in australia
drinking a warm beer is really not good for you, and its a good way to get sick after a hard night on the piss
room temprature would be fine for most of you guys in the far northern hemisphere, but when its 40*C here (over 100F) its not going to work
this guy trying to justify himself by saying that AOL spams customers is like any mass-murderer (hitler, pal-pot, saddam etc) saying its okay for our country to engage in genocide, look at america, they have the death penalty!
I'm just a medical student but i'm pretty sure i'd know about any gag orders by now
x-rays would tend to show if people had a GPS device with antennea implanted in them
Most of the important lines were given to someone with a bit more talent... like trinity, morpheous, the architect etc...
neo just sort of stands around and randomly says "wow" "i dont believe that" and "why?"
and how much will that be in pubes?
i was all fired up, sweating, adrenaline pumping etc... select all missiles and guns and let loose ;)
that game was hell cool, and it was on macintosh :D
Driving is actually quite fun and i figure that IC cars arnt going to be around for my entire lifetime - they are far too inefficient... incidently when are the oil supplies going to run out? as a child I read something like 2020
but if you hooked this thing up to a network you could easily use another computer as a file server to store mp3s and the like and eliminate the need for the mini-itx to have a hard drive
That would suit the home entertianment job just fine.
btw i thought of it because my friend uses his xbox to watch divx he has downloaded onto his pc. xboxes are probably cheaper for the job
i looked at the site... but the obvious thing i thought of was do they have cup holders?
I dunno probably a stupid idea but you have to look for the postives in a situation like this. Both the browser and the database are getting publicity.