It depends on how expensive this armor would be, and how effective it is at protecting non-moving body parts. If the same ammount of this material, that could compare to or protect as well as a standardly used pad, costs less, why not use it?
That is exactly what all the house & senate ppl forget (ok not all, but maybe..)
NOBODY GETS HURT for REAL in a videogame!
I might have some violent tendencies... but i honestly dont think i would live them out...
ok maybe one but i PROMISE you, its not because i played GTA ( 1 - 5? ) i had these ideas WAY before GTA, or even DUCK HUNT!@#$!@
As a matter o fact, i seriously think that violent video games have SAVED lives!
On some occasions when i was expieriencing homicidal tendencies (as a younger white suburban geek (the geek gets the girl) male), a good bout of street fighter, or mortal kombat, or Wolfenstein3D or Duke Nukem, OR DUCK HUNT!@$#! would bring a gentle calm upon me, expecially after kicking the #%@!%! out of M. Bison for the 500th time...
So the next time a senator speakes uo because he dislikes/distates "Violence in videogames", REMEMEBER!!! He was one of those kids who couldnt figure out the whole up-down-up-down thing when he tried to play contra..
My question is, Why the hell are such important computers even connected to the internet, much less connected to an internet-enabled computer?!? Firewall 101: If your needs do not include accessing the world-wide-web, do not even connect the plug. Heck, even if they did need to do some sort of universal patch to a glitchy program (which i hope for a standalone network, remote exploit vulnerabilities from the inet shouldnt even be a concern) Then the domain controller machine (which is NOT on the internet either, unless its a direct connect to a central server, which should be the only trusted external IP allowed to connect) could easily serve the patch..
Simple resolution to their fundamental PC problem (not about getting revenge/justice against this act) is to disconnect the inet from said boxes. If that seems to be a problem, then someone in managment just dosnt want to loose his/her hotmail access..... which is where this whole problem STARTS! Email attechments that then spread to other LAN connected boxes... No Internet Connection, No removable media, No Problem.
Dude, Think about the ultiamte Google killer! "The Public" would allow this singular company to collect the urls for the pages in your history (ie or ff or the cache/temp folder of many other browsers) and index said pages, Which would include google pages and the referenced site that the user viewed. Then launch your own search engine that runs off of the links that those millions of people view, and using some sort of interlinking algorithm that is 'better' than google's. Fair use of copying and using google's refer's ?... Oh wait, that would be a lot of weed...
The real inventor of 'wireless email' is the original inventor of email plus the original inventor of a general purpose wireless networking protocol.
I think what he meant, tho you got caught up with it being tcp/ip, is that it is the same general principal of email, yet it uses a SMS style protocol, not neccesarily TCP/IP. So he was crediting the originator of the e-mail concept and whoever developed the protocol that an email style system of relaying messages could run on...
Can your toaster run linux? Does NTP have a patent for your toaster burning an email message onto your peice of morning toast?... wait, i think i'll go patent that!
Easy! fill the tubes with equal parts of JBWeld mixing compounds! hull gets damaged, glass fibers filled with jbweld crack, releasing the resin and voila, instant hull fix. just make sure that each glass fiber filled with part-A of jbweld is paired up right next to a fiber filled with the curing compound.
ok ok maybe not jbweld, but the idea still holds water. (so will jbweld, i know, i used it on my leaky coolant pipe in my car)
This is a difficult question. I learnt a lot of technical stuff about the Debian system, but I cannot identify "the most important thing," so I'll have to look elsewhere: the community. I definitely learnt that my initial plans to "write a book about Debian" wouldn't have worked without the countless folks who helped out.
OMFG! I don't know if I should smash the article's author's head in with a shovel or the actual author of the book for using the "word" learnt!!! It is LEARNED, as in I LEARN in school, and I use what I LEARNED in my current career choice.
flame me for spelling or grammar typos, i dont care, this is just my own rant against whoever it is who allowed the word "learnt" into such a decent article!... btw, doesn't learn/learned look weird? Shouldn't it be Lurn/Lurned?
He said IPod... WTF made you think of Microsoft??... totally offtopic but i just wanted to know. And dont tell me that the Xbox 360 reminded you of microsoft when it comes to it. how the hell would an xbox really impede music sales when it JUST came out and is (in the current consumers eyes) is just a gaming system. (GOD i HATE when a game system tries to mesh itself into an entire entertainment system. there is a REASON your universal remote has different options for TV/Cable/AUX/DVD! The last thing we need is more remotes, or even worse a universal remote that includes the 360 functions. just imagine the licensing fee the remote controller manufacturer would have to pay per-seat!!)
The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium
Relatively durable? The last time i checked, accidentally slipping on a cd on even a nice carpet with a resonable ammount of dirt (aka sand) is enough to scratch a CD into enough oblivion that at the VERY LEAST impares at LEAST one track from playing successfully without skipping. You act as if most cd's are diamond coated or something. I have YET to find a "scratch resistant" coating on a normal store-bought CD. Not to mention the sh**y quality of plastic found in some (most) cheapo blank cd's. It's almost as if the recording industry figured out that a device which relys upon a defect-free plane of clear plastic was so much LESS durable than a standard audio cassette that it would be worth the money to invest in such a fragile media distribution.. Heck, i STILL have cassettes that are at least 8+ years old that, unless subject to an excessive ammount of magnetic force (i.e. swirling it around on a speaker magnet), will STILL play within the respective sound quality of a cassette tape in any new or old tape player i own.
Now i must admit, CD's do have their redeeming qualities, such as their superior sound quality and the fact that yes, if you treat your cd like your newborn baby's eyes, they will remain clear and true. But i remind you: the first time you drop your cd in the floor of your car, or even a more worse-case scenario, out of your car door onto the pavement in your local toy's-r-us parking lot just after you have tried to buy an Ipod just to find out that even they are sold out (i really dont know if toys-r-us carries ipods, nor do i care) even the act of attempting to pick up said CD, will be scratched to a point where it may just become unreadable by your standard car cd player. (that assumption requires the idea that at least a little sliding occurs before said CD is removed from the contact of the gravel/concrete) whereas if i dropped a cassette tape i could literally jump on it a couple of times and kick it against a brick wall without hampering sound quality, much less inducing any skipping...
So i shall redunditize (new word?) myself: The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium
Relatively durable?.... Compared to what?!? Your mothers favorite Vase on top of the mantle that your 7 year old nefew isnt even supposed to be able to reach?
You my dear man, if a man at all, would, if i still had mod points, be +5 insightful. Even without the Star Trek refference.
And yes, I am comma happy, your right.
Offtopic but, even gamespot uses photobucket (bandwidth exceeded msg shows up.) congradulations for creating your own semi-slashdot on gamespots page:P
Run a box that is streaming the music via an 802.11g wifi router over your local lan, setup as many terminals you need for the appropriate # of speakers, oh and make sure that if you use an external router, make sure it runs on linux. then you could stream local mp3s or stream streams... or sumthin like that
This has been a msg from your Linux User Service Example RepresentativeS. LLUSERS for short.
The economically disadvantaged will suffer due to the fact that an OO document wont open in the MSWord processor that their boss/future employer uses to look at resume's. thats just one example.
The rich ppl might not care to try to use a "free" software for compatibility, they pay for their own MS Office, and dont care. if the poor bastard that cant afford mS office cant write a resume that i can open in my native word processing program, i will skip over that application for someone else who's mommy can afford (or at least whos brother knows how to pirate) MS Office.
because the education of the uneducated is not a goal of mainstream media. They go all out for shock&awe, but when it comes down to something as technical as document format support, its ho-hum. Heck, its damn near no-hum. If the media covers a story that 25% of the viewing audience (as big or little as that may be depending on said media outlet/company) finds boring or too technical for their own comfort, they will switch channels from WSFA local news to FoxNews/CNN to get the real juicy stuff that their independantly controlled (heh, yeah, like they own a tinfoil hat or sumthin) minds clamour for.
The computers have problems translating the things written as are... bilingual will tell him that translating in line for complete prayers they will do nobody good, for the the majority of the parts. My Spanish teachers are all capable to see roles with translations of computer very easily, due to similarities in words and meanings (just as the "pants" of word that can be colthing or they may be breathing a lot of) not to mention, the grammar and those things are not done well in all. For the amusing one of it, the test that goes a translator in line [freetranslation com] and writes something in English, Spaniard translates him, then back to English. Some they result they are enough lunatic. I guess that the point that try to cause is this: what does the so special translators compared to the we have now? How can they work they better? Sure, there is probably a little more the effort put in these, but in I do not I think that a good translator will be available by other 5 years, not to mention the total "takes the speech that you do not say" the hard thing should believe.
the cogent letter says that level3 terminated the connection without notice with neither companies breaching the existing link agreement....
Level3's Motto (on the top of their website) is "The Network Partner You Can Rely On"...
gotta love the hate;)
gee where was your "insightful" (according to the mods) information when thisarticle was posted.... bugger off mr uid 2015.. btw i envy your uid.. so shaddap anyways:P
let me know when prepraid minutes dont cost as much.. $10 just dosnt go as far as it used to.. my daddy could go to a movie & buy candy+popcorn for less than $0.25US when he was a kid, WTF HAPPENED?!?!
i couldnt have said it better myself. imagine buying a MS license just to install a gui firewall on said windows box. i mean WTF! hell any and every linux box i have ever installed works as a PERFECT firewall! gotta love explicit deny all (thank you cisco) and hell, even my old ass slack 4.2 box has better firewalling than a comparable win98 box trying to run a gui/taskbar-only firewall.
my main gripe with windows firewalls is that even a simple icmp flood can stall/lockup a windows based firewall, simply because of all the overhead of storing for display/displaying (sans displaying for services-based firewall) as compared to iptables/ipchains.
hell even a cd-only install of debian comes with the perfect firewall: NAT! (ok nat isnt exactly a firewall, but lets see you download my copy of JennaJamesonDoesItAll-multiangle.mpg over ares when my ip is 192.168.23.86 hehehehehe.)
The philosophy of "Choice is Good" when it comes to users having a choice of desktop environments, word processors, etc. is often made, but don't forget it applies to FOSS developers too. Don't like the way a project is organized? Work on something else. Don't like the direction it's taking? Fork it. Choice keeps devs happy.
on the bright side: users could choose their entire accessibility & user-friendliness levels based upon reviews & features(not bugs) on hundreds of sites. uniquie to you from us!
dark side: some apps for chocolate require libA that vanilla dosnt offer/support, so chocolate programmers create libA to work on/with chocolate; vanilla gets left int he dust or must scramble to support libA.. gotta love forking i tell ya! /P.S. chocoalte = Vanilla + Special mix of whatever.
/P.S.S yes i just ((LOVE) parenthasies)) (blame mirc)
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And I shot the DJ, and everybody saw .. meh?
It depends on how expensive this armor would be, and how effective it is at protecting non-moving body parts. If the same ammount of this material, that could compare to or protect as well as a standardly used pad, costs less, why not use it?
PLease Mod Parent Up.
That is exactly what all the house & senate ppl forget (ok not all, but maybe..)
NOBODY GETS HURT for REAL in a videogame!
I might have some violent tendencies... but i honestly dont think i would live them
out...
ok maybe one but i PROMISE you, its not because i played GTA ( 1 - 5? ) i had these ideas WAY before GTA, or even DUCK HUNT!@#$!@
As a matter o fact, i seriously think that violent video games have SAVED lives!
On some occasions when i was expieriencing homicidal tendencies (as a younger white suburban geek (the geek gets the girl) male), a good bout of street fighter, or mortal kombat, or Wolfenstein3D or Duke Nukem, OR DUCK HUNT!@$#! would bring a gentle calm upon me, expecially after kicking the #%@!%! out of M. Bison for the 500th time...
So the next time a senator speakes uo because he dislikes/distates "Violence in videogames", REMEMEBER!!! He was one of those kids who couldnt figure out the whole up-down-up-down thing when he tried to play contra..
My question is, Why the hell are such important computers even connected to the internet, much less connected to an internet-enabled computer?!? Firewall 101: If your needs do not include accessing the world-wide-web, do not even connect the plug. Heck, even if they did need to do some sort of universal patch to a glitchy program (which i hope for a standalone network, remote exploit vulnerabilities from the inet shouldnt even be a concern) Then the domain controller machine (which is NOT on the internet either, unless its a direct connect to a central server, which should be the only trusted external IP allowed to connect) could easily serve the patch.. Simple resolution to their fundamental PC problem (not about getting revenge/justice against this act) is to disconnect the inet from said boxes. If that seems to be a problem, then someone in managment just dosnt want to loose his/her hotmail access..... which is where this whole problem STARTS! Email attechments that then spread to other LAN connected boxes... No Internet Connection, No removable media, No Problem.
Dude, Think about the ultiamte Google killer! "The Public" would allow this singular company to collect the urls for the pages in your history (ie or ff or the cache/temp folder of many other browsers) and index said pages, Which would include google pages and the referenced site that the user viewed. Then launch your own search engine that runs off of the links that those millions of people view, and using some sort of interlinking algorithm that is 'better' than google's. Fair use of copying and using google's refer's ? ... Oh wait, that would be a lot of weed...
The real inventor of 'wireless email' is the original inventor of email plus the original inventor of a general purpose wireless networking protocol.
... wait, i think i'll go patent that!
I think what he meant, tho you got caught up with it being tcp/ip, is that it is the same general principal of email, yet it uses a SMS style protocol, not neccesarily TCP/IP. So he was crediting the originator of the e-mail concept and whoever developed the protocol that an email style system of relaying messages could run on...
Can your toaster run linux? Does NTP have a patent for your toaster burning an email message onto your peice of morning toast?
Easy! fill the tubes with equal parts of JBWeld mixing compounds! hull gets damaged, glass fibers filled with jbweld crack, releasing the resin and voila, instant hull fix. just make sure that each glass fiber filled with part-A of jbweld is paired up right next to a fiber filled with the curing compound.
ok ok maybe not jbweld, but the idea still holds water. (so will jbweld, i know, i used it on my leaky coolant pipe in my car)
Touché. i shall now hang my head in shame.
This is a difficult question. I learnt a lot of technical stuff about the Debian system, but I cannot identify "the most important thing," so I'll have to look elsewhere: the community. I definitely learnt that my initial plans to "write a book about Debian" wouldn't have worked without the countless folks who helped out.
... btw, doesn't learn/learned look weird? Shouldn't it be Lurn/Lurned?
OMFG! I don't know if I should smash the article's author's head in with a shovel or the actual author of the book for using the "word" learnt!!! It is LEARNED, as in I LEARN in school, and I use what I LEARNED in my current career choice.
flame me for spelling or grammar typos, i dont care, this is just my own rant against whoever it is who allowed the word "learnt" into such a decent article!
so in other words.. your fucking everyone in your cliq.. you dont belong on slashdot! you have too much sex!
He said IPod... WTF made you think of Microsoft?? ... totally offtopic but i just wanted to know. And dont tell me that the Xbox 360 reminded you of microsoft when it comes to it. how the hell would an xbox really impede music sales when it JUST came out and is (in the current consumers eyes) is just a gaming system. (GOD i HATE when a game system tries to mesh itself into an entire entertainment system. there is a REASON your universal remote has different options for TV/Cable/AUX/DVD! The last thing we need is more remotes, or even worse a universal remote that includes the 360 functions. just imagine the licensing fee the remote controller manufacturer would have to pay per-seat!!)
The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium
.... Compared to what?!? Your mothers favorite Vase on top of the mantle that your 7 year old nefew isnt even supposed to be able to reach?
Relatively durable? The last time i checked, accidentally slipping on a cd on even a nice carpet with a resonable ammount of dirt (aka sand) is enough to scratch a CD into enough oblivion that at the VERY LEAST impares at LEAST one track from playing successfully without skipping. You act as if most cd's are diamond coated or something. I have YET to find a "scratch resistant" coating on a normal store-bought CD. Not to mention the sh**y quality of plastic found in some (most) cheapo blank cd's. It's almost as if the recording industry figured out that a device which relys upon a defect-free plane of clear plastic was so much LESS durable than a standard audio cassette that it would be worth the money to invest in such a fragile media distribution.. Heck, i STILL have cassettes that are at least 8+ years old that, unless subject to an excessive ammount of magnetic force (i.e. swirling it around on a speaker magnet), will STILL play within the respective sound quality of a cassette tape in any new or old tape player i own.
Now i must admit, CD's do have their redeeming qualities, such as their superior sound quality and the fact that yes, if you treat your cd like your newborn baby's eyes, they will remain clear and true. But i remind you: the first time you drop your cd in the floor of your car, or even a more worse-case scenario, out of your car door onto the pavement in your local toy's-r-us parking lot just after you have tried to buy an Ipod just to find out that even they are sold out (i really dont know if toys-r-us carries ipods, nor do i care) even the act of attempting to pick up said CD, will be scratched to a point where it may just become unreadable by your standard car cd player. (that assumption requires the idea that at least a little sliding occurs before said CD is removed from the contact of the gravel/concrete) whereas if i dropped a cassette tape i could literally jump on it a couple of times and kick it against a brick wall without hampering sound quality, much less inducing any skipping...
So i shall redunditize (new word?) myself: The CD is not dead. It's still a convenient and relatively durable medium
Relatively durable?
You my dear man, if a man at all, would, if i still had mod points, be +5 insightful. Even without the Star Trek refference. And yes, I am comma happy, your right.
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?topic _id=23998153&page=0
:P
Offtopic but, even gamespot uses photobucket (bandwidth exceeded msg shows up.) congradulations for creating your own semi-slashdot on gamespots page
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Run a box that is streaming the music via an 802.11g wifi router over your local lan, setup as many terminals you need for the appropriate # of speakers, oh and make sure that if you use an external router, make sure it runs on linux. then you could stream local mp3s or stream streams ... or sumthin like that
This has been a msg from your Linux User Service Example RepresentativeS. LLUSERS for short.
The economically disadvantaged will suffer due to the fact that an OO document wont open in the MSWord processor that their boss/future employer uses to look at resume's. thats just one example.
The rich ppl might not care to try to use a "free" software for compatibility, they pay for their own MS Office, and dont care. if the poor bastard that cant afford mS office cant write a resume that i can open in my native word processing program, i will skip over that application for someone else who's mommy can afford (or at least whos brother knows how to pirate) MS Office.
because the education of the uneducated is not a goal of mainstream media. They go all out for shock&awe, but when it comes down to something as technical as document format support, its ho-hum. Heck, its damn near no-hum. If the media covers a story that 25% of the viewing audience (as big or little as that may be depending on said media outlet/company) finds boring or too technical for their own comfort, they will switch channels from WSFA local news to FoxNews/CNN to get the real juicy stuff that their independantly controlled (heh, yeah, like they own a tinfoil hat or sumthin) minds clamour for.
yep, i even ran it through a 2nd and 3rd time but i before i posted i figured i could leave that as a personal project.
The computers have problems translating the things written as are... bilingual will tell him that translating in line for complete prayers they will do nobody good, for the the majority of the parts. My Spanish teachers are all capable to see roles with translations of computer very easily, due to similarities in words and meanings (just as the "pants" of word that can be colthing or they may be breathing a lot of) not to mention, the grammar and those things are not done well in all. For the amusing one of it, the test that goes a translator in line [freetranslation com] and writes something in English, Spaniard translates him, then back to English. Some they result they are enough lunatic. I guess that the point that try to cause is this: what does the so special translators compared to the we have now? How can they work they better? Sure, there is probably a little more the effort put in these, but in I do not I think that a good translator will be available by other 5 years, not to mention the total "takes the speech that you do not say" the hard thing should believe.
the cogent letter says that level3 terminated the connection without notice with neither companies breaching the existing link agreement ....
Level3's Motto (on the top of their website) is "The Network Partner You Can Rely On" ...
gotta love the hate ;)
gee where was your "insightful" (according to the mods) information when thisarticle was posted.... bugger off mr uid 2015.. btw i envy your uid .. so shaddap anyways :P
let me know when prepraid minutes dont cost as much.. $10 just dosnt go as far as it used to .. my daddy could go to a movie & buy candy+popcorn for less than $0.25US when he was a kid, WTF HAPPENED?!?!
and corporate firewall.
i couldnt have said it better myself. imagine buying a MS license just to install a gui firewall on said windows box. i mean WTF! hell any and every linux box i have ever installed works as a PERFECT firewall! gotta love explicit deny all (thank you cisco) and hell, even my old ass slack 4.2 box has better firewalling than a comparable win98 box trying to run a gui/taskbar-only firewall.
my main gripe with windows firewalls is that even a simple icmp flood can stall/lockup a windows based firewall, simply because of all the overhead of storing for display/displaying (sans displaying for services-based firewall) as compared to iptables/ipchains.
hell even a cd-only install of debian comes with the perfect firewall: NAT!
(ok nat isnt exactly a firewall, but lets see you download my copy of JennaJamesonDoesItAll-multiangle.mpg over ares when my ip is 192.168.23.86 hehehehehe.)
Congratulations, you just simplified the entire purpose of 'Keeping it Open©.'( yes i know thats a copyright symbol , i forgot what that kinda humor is called. can't be irony
the idea that you could take such a popular operating system (OS as defined as: a kernel+its supporting, bundled apps. yes M$ would LOVE my definition, but what i install from the OS disk (the FIRST CD and mebbe 2nd if system-critical apps are stored on it) is what i call the OS. ) and create such an influintial movement in the debian ocean, it creates a tsunami of compatibility issues big enough to be slashdot worthy.
imagine this happeneing in the M$ world, it is just un heard of, and what if it DID happen? MoeWindoes changes so much of what Windows was and gets to be near,as,or more popular than the official, 'vanilla' release.
on the bright side: users could choose their entire accessibility & user-friendliness levels based upon reviews & features(not bugs) on hundreds of sites. uniquie to you from us!
dark side: some apps for chocolate require libA that vanilla dosnt offer/support, so chocolate programmers create libA to work on/with chocolate; vanilla gets left int he dust or must scramble to support libA.. gotta love forking i tell ya!
/P.S.S yes i just ((LOVE) parenthasies)) (blame mirc)