Check out the music video in my sig... not only is it not shouting, it has a good beat and he's rapping about technology. The whole album is a futuristic concept. These days hip hop is as varied as rock based genres. In fact if anything hip hop has it's influence in nearly all genres, it's amazing when in the 80s people thought it was some dumb fad.
Funnily enough I bought my first MBP about this time last year and I froze it within 20 minutes of use. Crashed it a few times since trying to over-multitask I guess.
You're right, the Anarchist Cookbook was rather pedestrian and some of the things there were not good ideas. The Poor Man's James Bond was a much better book and even that wasn't so great... but nobody flipped out over that one.
I think it was the mystique of the AC that made people freak out, the name and having any sort of "dangerous" information in the hands of a subversive let their imaginations run wild with paranoid ideas. Think of the children! [TM]
I work for a tech company and when talking to an Indian client once he told me this:
He owns businesses in the US and back in India... because of the 12 or so different dialects they have there even he has trouble talking to them sometimes. In his experience as a business owner, the money he saved in wages was lost in the extra time it took to address the issue.
Of course since Ellison Onizuka was the first astronaut from Hawaii and a school teacher was going up every public school student was watching this on TV.
I don't remember too much from that 4th grade class except everyone being confused as to what happened and as we slowly realized what went on we were pretty speechless. The teacher turned off the TV and I really don't remember anything else that went on.
I can say it was the most disappointing day of my life up until this point and once in a while when seeing anything about the shuttle I think back about Ellison and Christa.. still a little sad. I really had so much hope for the future that someone from my home state had made it. I also hoped that with a teacher in space they would give shuttle rides to more educators and scientists. I was hoping this would bring the future to us much faster.
I find it interesting now that being a nerd is cool, but politically anti-intellectualism seems to rule.
PS3: Buy it for the Other OS feature, keep it because no one will take it off your hands. (No, really. I have a launch 60GB which I bought entirely for the Other OS feature. It's now useless for playing games because games require "updates" that disable the only functionality I got it for, but no one's gonna buy the old loud monster to play video games...)
Actually, if you have one of the ancient ones that has the chip that lets you play PS2 games I would buy it from you. The originals had hardware support for PS2 backward compatibility... then they removed that and made it software... then that was removed and at least you still had Other OS. The cycle continues...
I can't imagine you could buy the rights to a movie an actor was in and then use their likeness any way you wanted... So does this mean it would be some sort of digital sampling technique where you cut the actor out of scenes, scale the image and insert into other scenes?
Otherwise, how can it be legal to put people in situations/doing/saying things that they never did? If that's OK I can see advertisers plundering the legacy of every great actor that ever existed. Also would that then extend to radio appearances? How about characters from books being quoted or redrawn doing other things?
Could the Catholic Church buy the rights to D.C. Cab and then have BIll Maher's character saying he is a devout Catholic and anything else he "may have said" about religion and atheism was very misguided?
I work for a hosting company and higher priced domains are simply easier for the people with stolen credit cards to spot on their statements.
If it's minor they tend to shrug it oas soemthing trivial they did, but larger purchases grab their attention.
What really surprises me is how long some people will let a $9.95/mo. charge sit on their acct. before they take action and investigate it... in quite a few cases it's YEARS. I also noticed that a fraudster will tend to use a stolen card to register one or two domains and then not do anything else to someone's card. But then they'll use that domain to phish other people's CC#s and bleed them dry.
Just stuff I've noticed from talking to customers.
Ordinary citizens shoot burglars and other intruders all the time. The grandparent said, "Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal?" I would amend that to "while lawfully engaged in the act of carrying out their duties". As apposed to some psycho stalker/abusive cop.
Well I guess I will not be playing TF2 again. Despite the 'it's optional defence' some of the items will give advantages. You can still get them all randomly, so it's a choice of grind or pay up. I think I'll do neither.
It's amazing how angry people can get over the idea of paying for new content. In my opinion this is a much better model than releasing expansions that prevent others playing with the majority population without purchasing it. I recently reinstalled the game and to be sure, everyone has weird hats etc but I cannot say I found any noticeable disadvantage in having none of these gimmicks, my scores are middling same as they were a year or more ago when I last played it and I'm grateful to be able to still play with everyone without having to fork out 10 or 20 for the new maps and gear etc.
Well to be fair, some of the new content unbalances the game... like the $4.95 Crocodile hat that makes you immune to death by headshot.
When I logged into TF2 today it tried to sell me a hat for $4.95, the full game is selling for $10 right now. Though even if the game was $60 I can't justify $5 for an in-game hat that gives some minor advantage. I wonder how much it costs to buy everything?
Oh it's not "poorly crafted legalese" it's specifically written to numb your mind and leverage everything they need to ensure the make as much money as possible. The customer is always right, unless money is involved.
I made Frankenstein computers from all of my friends' cast off parts for over a decade. When I finally got a job where I made enough money not to care, I started buying all my games. Before that I was a little bastard and pirated everything I wanted to play but could not afford as I thought rent/food/booze were more important.
The barcade you're talking about is Ground Kontrol, which is a great spot w/ many vintage pinball machines. On last Wednesdays admission is $5 and games are free.
Wunderland is OK, but for a "nickle" arcade it's somewhat annoying that most games take 5 nickles. Also they're mostly little kid games.
I moved out here from Hawaii and the arcades seem to be doing well there to this day... we get a lot of "illegal" (commerce reasons I don't exactly know the details about) Japanese import arcade games. Hawaiian Brian's is the classic spot where you will find some of the country's best Street Fighter players.
I used to love that Arcade on Market St in San Francisco but it's been gone for years.:(
Now that we can grow brain filled heads to keep the zombies satisfied we can start breeding them for use as... well, somebody will figure that part out later.
It's an interesting, nerdy endeavor, but less practical than automated tracking systems; the expensive part of solar is the panels themselves. From TFA: His new designs are up to two and a half times more efficient per comparative length and width than traditional flat arrays.
If solar cells were free, than this would indeed be more efficient, and if there's limited space thay MAY be more practical.
Maybe they're factoring in the cost of making a flat solar cell able to track the sun, you'd need a control system and a motor which both have a monetary and electrical cost to run.
As a fellow musician, this is the most compelling use for an iPad yet. It would be great to run FoH sound or DAW w/ the iPad as the control surface. Now if only you could get it to flip through different application windows/devices like pages.
I've seen similar things before but with other products, I once saw a Nikon Camera that upon opening the box you got a working camera, except it was entirely made out of plastic, lenses and all. It did look just like a Nikon until you took it out of the box and felt how light it was (box had stuff to make it heavier in it) and then unwrapped the plastic.
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Check out the music video in my sig... not only is it not shouting, it has a good beat and he's rapping about technology. The whole album is a futuristic concept. These days hip hop is as varied as rock based genres. In fact if anything hip hop has it's influence in nearly all genres, it's amazing when in the 80s people thought it was some dumb fad.
Funnily enough I bought my first MBP about this time last year and I froze it within 20 minutes of use. Crashed it a few times since trying to over-multitask I guess.
You're right, the Anarchist Cookbook was rather pedestrian and some of the things there were not good ideas. The Poor Man's James Bond was a much better book and even that wasn't so great... but nobody flipped out over that one.
I think it was the mystique of the AC that made people freak out, the name and having any sort of "dangerous" information in the hands of a subversive let their imaginations run wild with paranoid ideas. Think of the children! [TM]
I work for a tech company and when talking to an Indian client once he told me this:
He owns businesses in the US and back in India... because of the 12 or so different dialects they have there even he has trouble talking to them sometimes. In his experience as a business owner, the money he saved in wages was lost in the extra time it took to address the issue.
Of course since Ellison Onizuka was the first astronaut from Hawaii and a school teacher was going up every public school student was watching this on TV.
I don't remember too much from that 4th grade class except everyone being confused as to what happened and as we slowly realized what went on we were pretty speechless. The teacher turned off the TV and I really don't remember anything else that went on.
I can say it was the most disappointing day of my life up until this point and once in a while when seeing anything about the shuttle I think back about Ellison and Christa.. still a little sad. I really had so much hope for the future that someone from my home state had made it. I also hoped that with a teacher in space they would give shuttle rides to more educators and scientists. I was hoping this would bring the future to us much faster.
I find it interesting now that being a nerd is cool, but politically anti-intellectualism seems to rule.
How are you supposed to get porn over HAM radio?
Packet radio son!
PS3: Buy it for the Other OS feature, keep it because no one will take it off your hands. (No, really. I have a launch 60GB which I bought entirely for the Other OS feature. It's now useless for playing games because games require "updates" that disable the only functionality I got it for, but no one's gonna buy the old loud monster to play video games...)
Actually, if you have one of the ancient ones that has the chip that lets you play PS2 games I would buy it from you. The originals had hardware support for PS2 backward compatibility... then they removed that and made it software... then that was removed and at least you still had Other OS. The cycle continues...
Just call Qwest and let them know you just saw some kids or crackhead steal it.
I can't imagine you could buy the rights to a movie an actor was in and then use their likeness any way you wanted... So does this mean it would be some sort of digital sampling technique where you cut the actor out of scenes, scale the image and insert into other scenes?
Otherwise, how can it be legal to put people in situations/doing/saying things that they never did? If that's OK I can see advertisers plundering the legacy of every great actor that ever existed. Also would that then extend to radio appearances? How about characters from books being quoted or redrawn doing other things?
Could the Catholic Church buy the rights to D.C. Cab and then have BIll Maher's character saying he is a devout Catholic and anything else he "may have said" about religion and atheism was very misguided?
I work for a hosting company and higher priced domains are simply easier for the people with stolen credit cards to spot on their statements.
If it's minor they tend to shrug it oas soemthing trivial they did, but larger purchases grab their attention.
What really surprises me is how long some people will let a $9.95/mo. charge sit on their acct. before they take action and investigate it... in quite a few cases it's YEARS. I also noticed that a fraudster will tend to use a stolen card to register one or two domains and then not do anything else to someone's card. But then they'll use that domain to phish other people's CC#s and bleed them dry.
Just stuff I've noticed from talking to customers.
1a) Give food 1b) Get hammer. 2) Hit new owner of food over head. With your new hammer. 3) ....
4) Dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, and you can save the food for when you really need it!
Don't forget your Thanko 80 port USB hub.
Ordinary citizens shoot burglars and other intruders all the time. The grandparent said, "Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal?" I would amend that to "while lawfully engaged in the act of carrying out their duties". As apposed to some psycho stalker/abusive cop.
Well I guess I will not be playing TF2 again. Despite the 'it's optional defence' some of the items will give advantages. You can still get them all randomly, so it's a choice of grind or pay up. I think I'll do neither.
It's amazing how angry people can get over the idea of paying for new content. In my opinion this is a much better model than releasing expansions that prevent others playing with the majority population without purchasing it. I recently reinstalled the game and to be sure, everyone has weird hats etc but I cannot say I found any noticeable disadvantage in having none of these gimmicks, my scores are middling same as they were a year or more ago when I last played it and I'm grateful to be able to still play with everyone without having to fork out 10 or 20 for the new maps and gear etc.
Well to be fair, some of the new content unbalances the game... like the $4.95 Crocodile hat that makes you immune to death by headshot.
When I logged into TF2 today it tried to sell me a hat for $4.95, the full game is selling for $10 right now. Though even if the game was $60 I can't justify $5 for an in-game hat that gives some minor advantage. I wonder how much it costs to buy everything?
Oh it's not "poorly crafted legalese" it's specifically written to numb your mind and leverage everything they need to ensure the make as much money as possible. The customer is always right, unless money is involved.
I made Frankenstein computers from all of my friends' cast off parts for over a decade. When I finally got a job where I made enough money not to care, I started buying all my games. Before that I was a little bastard and pirated everything I wanted to play but could not afford as I thought rent/food/booze were more important.
The barcade you're talking about is Ground Kontrol, which is a great spot w/ many vintage pinball machines. On last Wednesdays admission is $5 and games are free.
:(
Wunderland is OK, but for a "nickle" arcade it's somewhat annoying that most games take 5 nickles. Also they're mostly little kid games.
I moved out here from Hawaii and the arcades seem to be doing well there to this day... we get a lot of "illegal" (commerce reasons I don't exactly know the details about) Japanese import arcade games. Hawaiian Brian's is the classic spot where you will find some of the country's best Street Fighter players.
I used to love that Arcade on Market St in San Francisco but it's been gone for years.
Now that we can grow brain filled heads to keep the zombies satisfied we can start breeding them for use as... well, somebody will figure that part out later.
Yeah, robots need to get to Bicentennial Man skill levels.
It's an interesting, nerdy endeavor, but less practical than automated tracking systems; the expensive part of solar is the panels themselves. From TFA: His new designs are up to two and a half times more efficient per comparative length and width than traditional flat arrays.
If solar cells were free, than this would indeed be more efficient, and if there's limited space thay MAY be more practical.
Maybe they're factoring in the cost of making a flat solar cell able to track the sun, you'd need a control system and a motor which both have a monetary and electrical cost to run.
As a fellow musician, this is the most compelling use for an iPad yet. It would be great to run FoH sound or DAW w/ the iPad as the control surface. Now if only you could get it to flip through different application windows/devices like pages.
My Macintosh Performa had RCA line inputs... I think I had a 6400. I know the 8500 definitely has them too.
First time I've heard of a DDoS attack being used to break DRM...
It didn't break the DRM, it broke the game.
I've seen similar things before but with other products, I once saw a Nikon Camera that upon opening the box you got a working camera, except it was entirely made out of plastic, lenses and all. It did look just like a Nikon until you took it out of the box and felt how light it was (box had stuff to make it heavier in it) and then unwrapped the plastic.