Is already alive and kicking. Forgive me for being a TFC fan, but Valve came out with Steam, which was a server browser for essentially all of the "in-house" mods of HL (CS, TFC, OpFor, Ricochet, DMC, etc) yet faster and leaner than GameSpy (Also: No ads!). Given, this is only for HL and its mods, and only mods under the auspices of Valve (or Sierra? I'm not clear on that) yet the ability for a company to offer one server browser/launcher for all their games, as well as updating capability is there. I got Steam off my campus' gaming club FTP with CS 1.6. (Counter-[Racial slur meaning 'one who is Jewish or of Jewish or Hebrew heritage or descent'] is the name around here) It seems to me that Sierra is planning on making this a service extended to any pay-to-play online games of theirs because thay have a "price" column in the "my subscriptions" browser.
AR = Augmented Reality (Anyone remember an article on that? If not, google it up, it's interesting.)
If it has the capability to run as a server, what's to say someone can't rewrite the OS/firmware to actually facilitate AR. With the bluetooth capabilities, most or all of the instruments needed for AR (GPS, video screen goggles, everything else would be integrated into the pocket server: wireless connection, information proccessing capability, HUD generating software) If people can make a linux-based OS that fits on a single CD and runs off that CD without having to be installed, AR is not far down the road with this device. Then again, who would need a HUD for everyday activities?
C'mon folks, they _made an OS_, one that is better in many ways than Winblows. They cracked an Xbox (MS-ware) and ran Linux on it. Seriously, they will look at Palladium, TCPA, and DRM and collectively annouce "wtf!?! lmmfao!"
The GPL was probably never MEANT to make buying software not-worth-your-while, but if you can download Linux and tweak it to your taste, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of buying something that may or may not be what fits your style?
Let's give you some vouchers for free software that you can install and let us continue our crimes, but to a greater extent. I say they include a "the EULA on software purchased with this voucher is considered null and void" However, something like that can be considered in this analogy: Said Agreement:Microsoft::Molten Lead:Human Esophagus.
I used to work in my father's law office, writing docs and stuff... (keep in mind this was about 1999-2000) ON AN OLD COMPUTER!! (when I say "old, I mean an amberchrome screen, no mouse, 5.25 floppy, Wordperfect 4.2..) Yeah, that sucker had a 20 meg HD in it and it still works.. we use it to retrieve old docs... However, we have a few steps of tech in the office.. we have to write the files to 5.25, then put the 5.25 in a machine that takes both 5.25 and 3.5 (pentium 1 133 with '95) and then take the 3.5 and toss it in the '98 machine and get the files. And I thought I was l33t when I was doing that.. now I'm a EE major.
I love to hear about people modding Xboxes. To me, it's like a cross between Hackers, The Crocodile Hunter, and Jackass. Seems to me, these people who are modding the XBoxes were packet kiddies and they are dying to show off their (pseudo-)1337 h4x0r!ng 5k!115. Seriously, folks. Who in their right mind would go out of their way to skim approximately $1700 from BGa and get something they're not even skimming for? If they are going to mod the box to run WinMCE, but not actually make it useable by MCE, I find that, in a bor tome of voice, irrelevant. (Not to/., but to modding xboxes.) Gee. Let's work the numbers:
$2000 (Win MCE equipped PC)
Total Cost: $2000 (And you have the full capabilities of an actual PC!!)
Versus:
$200 (Price of Xbox)
+ $400 (Buying 2 new 'boxes to replace the ones you royally f[bleep]ed up)
+ ~$20 (Materials to create a keyboard-to-XBox widget)
+ $30 (New XBox Controller to replace the one you chopped up to make said widget)
Total Cost: ~$650
(Sans-DVD-R, CD-R, etc..)
C'mon, folks, why buy either when you can (in most cases) use the PC you already own?
If the Kids.us domain is to be totally free of "hate material" then it must omit all (100%) of religious content from it. There is no such thing as a loving religion (well, except Kama Sutra, and THAT is NOT for kids... 'cept mebbe the ones here.)Even something that links to religious trash should be omitted.
"God told me to hate you and all like you"
-An idiot.
Wow..
iBook: $ 2300
Ants who saw the ads and decided to do their own "switch": free
For the price of an iBook, you should start charging rent for those squatters. It's heated, AND it has a large supply og organic plastic compounds.
Damn ants...
Considering that a lot of people who complain about spam are too computer illiterate to do anything about it, (i.e. My Mum.) a statement from the FTC is a smart decision, since the computer illiterates (some, at least) will have access to that statement.
I bet they will get a warning label listing the various ripping progs that are nullified by the copy-protection, a la WARNING: This CD can NOT be ripped by: MusicMatch, Winamp, Windows Media Player (boy would MS sue over that), CDEx, etc...
I predict that Amazon.com (along with other prevalent internet-based vendors) will go under rather quickly if this proposed internet tax goes through. People buy things off of the internet A)Because they are not able to find them anywhere convenient to their location, and B)No tax. I would much rather pay tax than shipping, but BOTH? If a tax does get levied, people will simply stop buying on the net, since the benefit of finding something in a store has the benefit of being immediately acquired when they purchase, no shipping either! Heck, if they started taxing, I, for one, would not buy online.
PACKET KIDDIE!!
Just kidding, of course, but what if he was? I mean, wouldn't that cast one hell of a doubt upon our military servers? For the #1 military in the world, we ain't secure. What if this guy actually decided to F with us. What if he decided he wanted... say... 10,000 troops sent to Luxembourg, perhaps. Seriously, this guy could have done some serious damage. I bet he will get one of those "Work for us or rot in jail" deals from the US Gov.
Ah, IQ testing is not as much of a yardstick of intelligence as it is a yardstick of the ability to pick things up quickly. Example: Someone with an IQ of 75 would need to study a LOT more than someone with an IQ of 200. Not saying they will never learn it, they just need a bit more of the ol' forced-info-oscillation to get it down solid.
Maybe it's a bad translation (See: AYB) I mean, of course, one can't really get "My twin moons.." from "Nice shoes. Wanna..." without proper inebriation. However, maybe it's a symbolic detatchment from "reality" as anime is from live action. Of course, you wouldn't blurt out "My twin moons..." at a restaurant, but say "I love you" or whatever it is, and save time and keep your girl/boy (if an airhead) from sitting there wondering "What the heck did THAT mean!?!?" Again, all IMHO.
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Is already alive and kicking. Forgive me for being a TFC fan, but Valve came out with Steam, which was a server browser for essentially all of the "in-house" mods of HL (CS, TFC, OpFor, Ricochet, DMC, etc) yet faster and leaner than GameSpy (Also: No ads!). Given, this is only for HL and its mods, and only mods under the auspices of Valve (or Sierra? I'm not clear on that) yet the ability for a company to offer one server browser/launcher for all their games, as well as updating capability is there. I got Steam off my campus' gaming club FTP with CS 1.6. (Counter-[Racial slur meaning 'one who is Jewish or of Jewish or Hebrew heritage or descent'] is the name around here) It seems to me that Sierra is planning on making this a service extended to any pay-to-play online games of theirs because thay have a "price" column in the "my subscriptions" browser.
AR = Augmented Reality (Anyone remember an article on that? If not, google it up, it's interesting.) If it has the capability to run as a server, what's to say someone can't rewrite the OS/firmware to actually facilitate AR. With the bluetooth capabilities, most or all of the instruments needed for AR (GPS, video screen goggles, everything else would be integrated into the pocket server: wireless connection, information proccessing capability, HUD generating software) If people can make a linux-based OS that fits on a single CD and runs off that CD without having to be installed, AR is not far down the road with this device. Then again, who would need a HUD for everyday activities?
C'mon folks, they _made an OS_, one that is better in many ways than Winblows. They cracked an Xbox (MS-ware) and ran Linux on it. Seriously, they will look at Palladium, TCPA, and DRM and collectively annouce "wtf!?! lmmfao!"
The GPL was probably never MEANT to make buying software not-worth-your-while, but if you can download Linux and tweak it to your taste, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of buying something that may or may not be what fits your style?
Seeing as though Top-Fuel is primarily American-based, what makes the ricers think their cars are faster?
Let's give you some vouchers for free software that you can install and let us continue our crimes, but to a greater extent. I say they include a "the EULA on software purchased with this voucher is considered null and void" However, something like that can be considered in this analogy: Said Agreement:Microsoft::Molten Lead:Human Esophagus.
Chinese hacker has managed to mod a SNES console to run Red-Hat 8.0...
I used to work in my father's law office, writing docs and stuff... (keep in mind this was about 1999-2000) ON AN OLD COMPUTER!! (when I say "old, I mean an amberchrome screen, no mouse, 5.25 floppy, Wordperfect 4.2..) Yeah, that sucker had a 20 meg HD in it and it still works.. we use it to retrieve old docs... However, we have a few steps of tech in the office.. we have to write the files to 5.25, then put the 5.25 in a machine that takes both 5.25 and 3.5 (pentium 1 133 with '95) and then take the 3.5 and toss it in the '98 machine and get the files. And I thought I was l33t when I was doing that.. now I'm a EE major.
Replicator.
I love to hear about people modding Xboxes. To me, it's like a cross between Hackers, The Crocodile Hunter, and Jackass. Seems to me, these people who are modding the XBoxes were packet kiddies and they are dying to show off their (pseudo-)1337 h4x0r!ng 5k!115. Seriously, folks. Who in their right mind would go out of their way to skim approximately $1700 from BGa and get something they're not even skimming for? If they are going to mod the box to run WinMCE, but not actually make it useable by MCE, I find that, in a bor tome of voice, irrelevant. (Not to /., but to modding xboxes.) Gee. Let's work the numbers:
$2000 (Win MCE equipped PC)
Total Cost: $2000 (And you have the full capabilities of an actual PC!!)
Versus:
$200 (Price of Xbox)
+ $400 (Buying 2 new 'boxes to replace the ones you royally f[bleep]ed up)
+ ~$20 (Materials to create a keyboard-to-XBox widget)
+ $30 (New XBox Controller to replace the one you chopped up to make said widget)
Total Cost: ~$650
(Sans-DVD-R, CD-R, etc..)
C'mon, folks, why buy either when you can (in most cases) use the PC you already own?
If the Kids.us domain is to be totally free of "hate material" then it must omit all (100%) of religious content from it. There is no such thing as a loving religion (well, except Kama Sutra, and THAT is NOT for kids... 'cept mebbe the ones here.)Even something that links to religious trash should be omitted. "God told me to hate you and all like you" -An idiot.
Wow.. iBook: $ 2300 Ants who saw the ads and decided to do their own "switch": free For the price of an iBook, you should start charging rent for those squatters. It's heated, AND it has a large supply og organic plastic compounds. Damn ants...
Is that 200 million Canadian or US dollars?
Considering that a lot of people who complain about spam are too computer illiterate to do anything about it, (i.e. My Mum.) a statement from the FTC is a smart decision, since the computer illiterates (some, at least) will have access to that statement.
What if M$ decided to oppose the DMC bill because it would limit the ability of consumers to rip music to their propritary .WMA format?
I bet they will get a warning label listing the various ripping progs that are nullified by the copy-protection, a la WARNING: This CD can NOT be ripped by: MusicMatch, Winamp, Windows Media Player (boy would MS sue over that), CDEx, etc...
I predict that Amazon.com (along with other prevalent internet-based vendors) will go under rather quickly if this proposed internet tax goes through. People buy things off of the internet A)Because they are not able to find them anywhere convenient to their location, and B)No tax. I would much rather pay tax than shipping, but BOTH? If a tax does get levied, people will simply stop buying on the net, since the benefit of finding something in a store has the benefit of being immediately acquired when they purchase, no shipping either! Heck, if they started taxing, I, for one, would not buy online.
Like to see an effective stream compression system... That way mebbe one day we can actually SEE the REAL sites that have been slashdotted!!
PACKET KIDDIE!! Just kidding, of course, but what if he was? I mean, wouldn't that cast one hell of a doubt upon our military servers? For the #1 military in the world, we ain't secure. What if this guy actually decided to F with us. What if he decided he wanted... say... 10,000 troops sent to Luxembourg, perhaps. Seriously, this guy could have done some serious damage. I bet he will get one of those "Work for us or rot in jail" deals from the US Gov.
Ah, IQ testing is not as much of a yardstick of intelligence as it is a yardstick of the ability to pick things up quickly. Example: Someone with an IQ of 75 would need to study a LOT more than someone with an IQ of 200. Not saying they will never learn it, they just need a bit more of the ol' forced-info-oscillation to get it down solid.
Maybe it's a bad translation (See: AYB) I mean, of course, one can't really get "My twin moons.." from "Nice shoes. Wanna..." without proper inebriation. However, maybe it's a symbolic detatchment from "reality" as anime is from live action. Of course, you wouldn't blurt out "My twin moons..." at a restaurant, but say "I love you" or whatever it is, and save time and keep your girl/boy (if an airhead) from sitting there wondering "What the heck did THAT mean!?!?" Again, all IMHO.