I didn't mind the in-game Axe Body Spray ads playing on the video screens in common areas of Anarchy Online. Until I heard the same Axe ad playing over and over again... I hated it... I was actually hoping for new ads.
If more vendors had jumped into the advertising and maybe tried a few clever/entertaining ideas I'd have no problem with it.
They should just let people plug in some form of memory card to load their own custom designed players. Neo Geo used to have card slots way back in the day. They could even let people bring controllers like some Tekken 5 machines I've seen.
Though I guess you could make a custom cheat controller?
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I have this fantasy in which I am kind of superhero who travels the country tracking down hack reporters who slap the "gate" suffix on anything vaguely resembling a scandal, then jabbing them with a cattle prod until I'm satisfied justice has been served.
I can see the headlines now...
Vigilante Justice or Enemy of Free Speech?
I just saw a janitor with a pager on at work the other day and my brain went "woah a pager!".
I've seen a few other people wearing them but it's pretty rare. I wonder if there's some business trade show where they're being advertised.
The lack of soundtrack and sparse sound effects along with that static, which you would normally turn off or tune out in real life day to day activities really messed with me. It was the first and one of a very short list of games that gave me anxiety and/or creeped me out.
I've seen mineral oil used. In the summer of 94' I went to The Icon Byte Bar and Grill in the SOMA area of SF and they TVs and a computer submerged in mineral oil with the covers taken off sitting in fish tanks. It looked cool and they seemed to work just fine.
P.S. It was also the first internet cafe I went to, they had a "blazing fast" 14.4 SLIP line and I thought this silly black on grey World Wide Web was a waste of time compared to Gopher.
I befriended a cute computer programmer because I was one of the only people who knew the series of 1s and 0s she embroidered on her tote bag was a binary representation of "69".
The problem with balance is this: name one popular, over the top liberal pundit.
I only know of one offhand... Randi Rhodes on Air America. She makes me cringe at times. But she's more batty than a total maniac, but does fly off the handle for sure.
Does this mean we'll have self-destructing documents for secret note passing? Will spies have to worry about getting blown up accidentally like Chief Quimby?
Add some tequila and we'll have oceans of margaritas. For the free booze or to save to save the Earth, I think everyone will agree with the plan. This could be the dawn of a new era...
My off hand guess, Bittorrents. I've noticed with the WRT54G that I had for a while would have problems if you're running multiple torrents, and don't have any cap on how many inbound and outbound connections there can be (IE, overnight runs where you don't need to use any of your bandwidth:-) A reboot always fixed the problem - I assume it's either running out of memory, or running out of ports to work with (since each connection has a timeout of an hour, IIRC)
The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for one) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.
I updated my DD-WRT firmware to the newest one and set the the TCP timeout to 300 and things seem fine now.
I'm sure game modders would want this. I know my friend spends a lot of time rendering buildings and textures. Also, he recently did some freelance work rendering buildings for a local car commercial.
So basically the 3D hobbyist will probably want to do this.
But there's another, less positive explanation: People are afraid of what is referred to in the eBay community as "retaliatory feedback." That's when a seller (or a buyer--it can happen on both sides) becomes annoyed or enraged at a negative comment posted by someone else about them, and in retaliation posts a negative comment in return.
Which is exactly why I pay quickly and then let the seller post feedback first which is always positive for the quick payment. If there's a problem I email and try to work it out, otherwise I give accurate feedback.
I only had a problem once when a guy sold me some bootleg DVDs. I emailed and told him I knew it wasn't legit and we could exchange for our money back but he ignored me. I gave feedback, he reported me to some sorta arbitration service to resolve the feedback I wrote them back telling them what was up. He never answered. He didn't wanna trade back so I reported him to the actual company who's stuff he was bootlegging. They thanked me and gave me free copies of the whole series. I thought it worked out well. I hate pirates that try to profit anyway.
How long does it take to digest? Does it stink? How does a plant that small keep small rodents from escaping? I would think it would be hard to drown them, unless there liquid is tasty and sedative? More info please!
The truth is, to an extent that's how some things tend to be in comics. An interesting article on the phenomena is discussed using the character Power Girl.
Ever notice how every strong female on Heroes is either killed off, raped or suffers an attempted sexual assault? Except the motor mimic girl, but the show went on hiatus mid beatdown.
Unfortunately the PIII & RAM are just barely not enough juice to render it all that well. I get frame skips @ 704x480 48khz stereo audio... it usually averages about 12-16fps.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC
Again with its hardware, the Xbox does not have enough resources to play MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoded videos with CABAC and deblocking if the video-resolution is higher than 352x288 pixels. If videos are encoded without CABAC and deblocking then the Xbox hardware can handle up to 720x576 pixels video-resolution. It is generally better to encode videos to MPEG-4 (like DivX or XviD) instead. Then the video's native-resolution can be anything up to 960x540 pixels (also known as HRHD resolution).
Good lord, learn a little history. Music was a "cheap plastic commodity" at least as early as the 1950s; the big labels were hitmakers back then just as they are now (well, before the Internet started killing their business model, anyway). There were manufactured pop bands long before you or I were born.
MTV didn't invent this, it's just another in a long line of corporate tools for promoting bands. There's been plenty of good, "artistic" music both before and after MTV was born.
Sure I understand, and I don't buy much if any major label music... I have literally thousands of CDs, cassettes and (mostly) vinyl records. I'm bona fide music nerd. But, if you respect music, love music, live it even... it's not a cheap plastic commodity to you is it?
Pop music isn't all bad either, it can be fun and quality too. Yes, I know all about the payola scandals of the and present. In fact, this article by Davy D., "Why commerce is killing the true spirit of hip-hop" sums things up rather well. It's true for more than just hip hop, I'd say media in general. Check out this excerpt:
During a separate conversation, Questlove of the Roots supported Porter's allegation with his own story about the process behind the group's Grammy-winning hit with Erykah Badu, ``You Got Me.'' He said the Roots had to pony up close to ``a million dollars'' to a middle man who ``worked his magic'' at radio stations.
Initially, the overtly positive song had been rejected, he explained, so palms were greased with the promise that key stations countrywide would get hot ``summer jam'' concert acts in exchange for airplay. According to Questlove, more than $1 million in cash and resources were eventually laid out for the success of that single song. In the early days MTV was all about music, the VJs they had working were real music fans, you could see that sparkle in their eyes. They were hungry for it. Though a lot of it was cheesy pop, it was the better cheesy pop and on top of that they would introduce innovative artists.
Remember 120 minutes? That show was brilliant! Remember when afro-centric & positive hip hop was something they were proud of on Yo! MTV Raps? At one point MTV was staffed by music lovers and musicians themselves; they had lots of live concerts and gave back to music culture in their own way... now it's staffed by a corporate entity who's sole vision is dollars via the lowest of the low common denominator. BET, as well... they might act like they care. But they sure as hell don't seem to give a rat's ass about elevating the culture.
Maybe I'm just seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, but I remember MTV being musical, substantive and entertaining in the past. Good music is still out there and with the help of technology even more music lovers are making it. I have hope for the future.
I find it strange coming from the company that originally built itself on new and interesting music. Who later killed off Yo! MTV Raps & Headbangers Ball, Barely reports any music news, turned it's main station into Reality TV Central, shuffled all it's music to MTV2 and then started cutting videos from there as well, ignores most independent artists and panders to crass commercialism & manufactured pop-music giants.
Seriously... maybe they had a small role in killing music buy changing it from an artform to a cheap plastic commodity.
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I didn't mind the in-game Axe Body Spray ads playing on the video screens in common areas of Anarchy Online. Until I heard the same Axe ad playing over and over again... I hated it... I was actually hoping for new ads.
If more vendors had jumped into the advertising and maybe tried a few clever/entertaining ideas I'd have no problem with it.
They should just let people plug in some form of memory card to load their own custom designed players. Neo Geo used to have card slots way back in the day. They could even let people bring controllers like some Tekken 5 machines I've seen. Though I guess you could make a custom cheat controller?
I have this fantasy in which I am kind of superhero who travels the country tracking down hack reporters who slap the "gate" suffix on anything vaguely resembling a scandal, then jabbing them with a cattle prod until I'm satisfied justice has been served.
I can see the headlines now...
Vigilante Justice or Enemy of Free Speech?
CATTLEGATE
I just saw a janitor with a pager on at work the other day and my brain went "woah a pager!". I've seen a few other people wearing them but it's pretty rare. I wonder if there's some business trade show where they're being advertised.
He's a starving artist, and if he's signed to a major label... he's a starving artist with a 800 lb gorilla on his back.
For the world's scientists to calibrate their instruments for 6,000 years.
The lack of soundtrack and sparse sound effects along with that static, which you would normally turn off or tune out in real life day to day activities really messed with me. It was the first and one of a very short list of games that gave me anxiety and/or creeped me out.
I've seen mineral oil used. In the summer of 94' I went to The Icon Byte Bar and Grill in the SOMA area of SF and they TVs and a computer submerged in mineral oil with the covers taken off sitting in fish tanks. It looked cool and they seemed to work just fine.
P.S. It was also the first internet cafe I went to, they had a "blazing fast" 14.4 SLIP line and I thought this silly black on grey World Wide Web was a waste of time compared to Gopher.
I befriended a cute computer programmer because I was one of the only people who knew the series of 1s and 0s she embroidered on her tote bag was a binary representation of "69".
The problem with balance is this: name one popular, over the top liberal pundit.
I only know of one offhand... Randi Rhodes on Air America. She makes me cringe at times. But she's more batty than a total maniac, but does fly off the handle for sure.
Does this mean we'll have self-destructing documents for secret note passing? Will spies have to worry about getting blown up accidentally like Chief Quimby?
Add some tequila and we'll have oceans of margaritas. For the free booze or to save to save the Earth, I think everyone will agree with the plan. This could be the dawn of a new era...
My off hand guess, Bittorrents. I've noticed with the WRT54G that I had for a while would have problems if you're running multiple torrents, and don't have any cap on how many inbound and outbound connections there can be (IE, overnight runs where you don't need to use any of your bandwidth :-) A reboot always fixed the problem - I assume it's either running out of memory, or running out of ports to work with (since each connection has a timeout of an hour, IIRC)
Here's the issue that causes that. http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Special_note_for_users_with_Linksys_WRT54G_GL_GS_routers
The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for one) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.
I updated my DD-WRT firmware to the newest one and set the the TCP timeout to 300 and things seem fine now.
Would ISPs be willing to allow the military botnet use their resources at will without getting paid for it?
I'm sure game modders would want this. I know my friend spends a lot of time rendering buildings and textures. Also, he recently did some freelance work rendering buildings for a local car commercial. So basically the 3D hobbyist will probably want to do this.
Which is exactly why I pay quickly and then let the seller post feedback first which is always positive for the quick payment. If there's a problem I email and try to work it out, otherwise I give accurate feedback. I only had a problem once when a guy sold me some bootleg DVDs. I emailed and told him I knew it wasn't legit and we could exchange for our money back but he ignored me. I gave feedback, he reported me to some sorta arbitration service to resolve the feedback I wrote them back telling them what was up. He never answered. He didn't wanna trade back so I reported him to the actual company who's stuff he was bootlegging. They thanked me and gave me free copies of the whole series. I thought it worked out well. I hate pirates that try to profit anyway.
For various tasks that groups of people may need to do. You could even donate time for different causes. Boinc mobile?
How long does it take to digest? Does it stink? How does a plant that small keep small rodents from escaping? I would think it would be hard to drown them, unless there liquid is tasty and sedative? More info please!
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The truth is, to an extent that's how some things tend to be in comics. An interesting article on the phenomena is discussed using the character Power Girl.
http://daveslongbox.blogspot.com/2005/09/boob-war-climax-everybody-loves-power.html
Ever notice how every strong female on Heroes is either killed off, raped or suffers an attempted sexual assault? Except the motor mimic girl, but the show went on hiatus mid beatdown.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC Again with its hardware, the Xbox does not have enough resources to play MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoded videos with CABAC and deblocking if the video-resolution is higher than 352x288 pixels. If videos are encoded without CABAC and deblocking then the Xbox hardware can handle up to 720x576 pixels video-resolution. It is generally better to encode videos to MPEG-4 (like DivX or XviD) instead. Then the video's native-resolution can be anything up to 960x540 pixels (also known as HRHD resolution).
MTV didn't invent this, it's just another in a long line of corporate tools for promoting bands. There's been plenty of good, "artistic" music both before and after MTV was born.
Sure I understand, and I don't buy much if any major label music... I have literally thousands of CDs, cassettes and (mostly) vinyl records. I'm bona fide music nerd. But, if you respect music, love music, live it even... it's not a cheap plastic commodity to you is it?
Pop music isn't all bad either, it can be fun and quality too. Yes, I know all about the payola scandals of the and present. In fact, this article by Davy D., "Why commerce is killing the true spirit of hip-hop" sums things up rather well. It's true for more than just hip hop, I'd say media in general. Check out this excerpt: During a separate conversation, Questlove of the Roots supported Porter's allegation with his own story about the process behind the group's Grammy-winning hit with Erykah Badu, ``You Got Me.'' He said the Roots had to pony up close to ``a million dollars'' to a middle man who ``worked his magic'' at radio stations. Initially, the overtly positive song had been rejected, he explained, so palms were greased with the promise that key stations countrywide would get hot ``summer jam'' concert acts in exchange for airplay. According to Questlove, more than $1 million in cash and resources were eventually laid out for the success of that single song. In the early days MTV was all about music, the VJs they had working were real music fans, you could see that sparkle in their eyes. They were hungry for it. Though a lot of it was cheesy pop, it was the better cheesy pop and on top of that they would introduce innovative artists.
Remember 120 minutes? That show was brilliant! Remember when afro-centric & positive hip hop was something they were proud of on Yo! MTV Raps? At one point MTV was staffed by music lovers and musicians themselves; they had lots of live concerts and gave back to music culture in their own way... now it's staffed by a corporate entity who's sole vision is dollars via the lowest of the low common denominator. BET, as well... they might act like they care. But they sure as hell don't seem to give a rat's ass about elevating the culture.
Maybe I'm just seeing the past through rose-colored glasses, but I remember MTV being musical, substantive and entertaining in the past. Good music is still out there and with the help of technology even more music lovers are making it. I have hope for the future.
I find it strange coming from the company that originally built itself on new and interesting music. Who later killed off Yo! MTV Raps & Headbangers Ball, Barely reports any music news, turned it's main station into Reality TV Central, shuffled all it's music to MTV2 and then started cutting videos from there as well, ignores most independent artists and panders to crass commercialism & manufactured pop-music giants. Seriously... maybe they had a small role in killing music buy changing it from an artform to a cheap plastic commodity.
It looks like the original White Box Robotics 914 PC-BOT Basic Robot Platform does run Linux. Heathkit likely went w/ XP because most kids will already be familiar with it... and they hate hackers. ;)
Seriously, are taxpayer funded schools even allowed to do something like this?