did you son pee his pants because you did that or because you never DO do that and you did once? if you had started punishment such as this from the beginning he wouldnt have reacted to it in this way...
i'm 22 years old and my parents definatley spared no rod in my household and i can honestly say i'm WAY better for it. They didnt do it out of anger or hatred or anything, but out of love and it works. and thats the bottom line....
I've used webmin for something like 8 months now. i never had a need for a book but i must say that i LOVE webmin. the program is just about the best thing ever:-P
Well, what do you expect to get when you download something that straight out says it's illegal? You're obiosly going to get more illegal stuff. I thought there was probably an alterior motive as soon as i heard about ES5. I guess not downloading it would have been the best strategy in the first place....
I want to know how if they dont sell at a loss, how on earth they produce that console and all the stuff that comes with it for a small enough amount that they can have it selling for 99 bucks in the stores and still be making a profit on it. or even breaking even. you gotta figure the GC is probably around 70-80 "cost," and then the stores make 20-30 profit on that. that's gotta be a VERY cheap thing to produce. this it's possible? I dont see how they could break even quite honestly...
what you're thinking of is the virtual big screen's that they have. there's a dealy that goes in front of one eye and is about an inch wide and a half inch tall but after calibration for your eye it looks like it's 60". It's a really sweet little deal. there is already a wearable computer way smaller than that that uses it.
anyone know anything about the landwarior system that the military uses? they have a wearable computer for that that is smaller than a portable cd player, has GPS built in, runs a modified version of windows, allows troop communication and has a pentium 3 CPU. it's a heck of a lot cooler than that crap. i honestly dont know how they got THAT much stuff ti make a wearable computer. there are much smaller solutions already on the market...
no one holds any rights to the LOTR name or story. It's public domain. it was written ages ago before that stuff even existed. the MPAA cant do crap about it...
lol and any one of us knows we'd want it... It's a total gimmick, but it's be fun to show off (in the confines of your room where no one could see how much of a dork you really were...) The problem is that everything is external. they need to WAY cut back on some of the components there and enclose it INSIDE a jacket where people cant see it. Also, if you're going to make a jacket that has that much to it, it had BETTER be powered by something faster than a PDA. they have hard drive sized wearable computers out there that have real pentium CPU's in them. If you ask me, this jacket is a it of a waste of space and $$. fun idea, but no one would REALLY want to use it for its intended purpose. only to show off to their fellow nerds...
agreed. i think there are some places when it's not over abused. in some parts of the HL2 vids it's rediculous, like where the guy is shot off the top of the light pole in the Barricade vid. the physics overreact so much that arms and legs do flailing everywhere and the body bounces and really looks dumb. but then there's the part in the same vid where the guy is blows up by the grenade and flies toward the player and bounces off thhe car. This part almost looks like there IS that resistance that is needed. the body lands exactly how you'd expect. i wonder if this is just coincedence or if there really was a difference in the two... i just thing they need to stop making a tech demo out of games and make the games realistic and fun.
i say: a unbelivable movie can be really good when presented in a believable way. (IE: the matrix) but if's so chock full of rediculous over-special effects, then it gets a little stupid. (IE: Minority Report (IMHO)) I think this goes for games as well. time will show that you need to have moderation in things like these... time will tell in any case...
with the creation of all the new physics engines such as the Havok system, i find that things get a little stupider in games. they seem to throw random objects in the game just so you can bounce them off the walls... the ragdoll physics on the models pretty much looks completely fake. it may look cool, but if you throw a body it wouldnt do that. there are points that you cant physically stretch past that they have the models go past. they turn all the joints into these springy balljoint's and it looks really....dumb. in the HL2 videos, the only stuff i didnt like was when he picked up the guy and he bounced all over the place. it just looked fake.... cant they add some resistance to the joints and a little stiffness like is natural???
true, but part of beating your opponent is being able to respect that fact that there IS a threat there in the first place. you just have to respect your enemy...:-P
I cant wait to see what come out of this. the whole homeworld "series" of things has just been extremely impressive. I never liked RTS games until Homeworld and i actually turned up the volume on the music. normally i just turn down the volume. i hope someone does SOMETHING in any case... time will tell
eh, who knows. maybe he likes it:) I don't agree with his practices but some of them are quite imaginative... Quite honestly i hate spam and wouldn't blink if all the spammers suddenly fell off the earth, but ya gotta hand it to some of them. Imagine if they actually had the direction in life how much good some of them could do. kinda cool on one side but kinda a crying shame on the other... Kinda like a hacker. If he'd started developing security software instead of breaking through it, we'd all be better off... it's just a misplacement of skills.
LOL, i got a few good laughs out of his story. one of my favorite parts:
'"I was thrown off more BellSouth accounts than half the state of Florida,'' Colbert says. His name was known, and he was a marked and wanted man. But he found a way around the heat. ''Do you remember when American Express came out with temporary credit cards?'' he recalls happily. ''You could go to the 7-11 convenience store and buy a $25 credit card -- sort of like you buy a $25 phone card, only it was good for just $25 worth of credit."
Armed with a dozen of these cards, Colbert would go to the BellSouth Web site and create numerous e-mail accounts from which to send spam, each account with a fictitious name and address. Since the credit card couldn't be connected to him in any way, he could spam away until BellSouth finally got around to canceling that particular account. ''They were great, totally untraceable,'' he says of the credit cards. ''They don't sell them anymore. I think it's because of me.'' '
if you bothered to read my reply carefully you'll notice that it was a side topic. the issue was not about e-mail. it was about internet sales tax, i just interjected a comment about how they taxing e-mails would be terrible...
you'll notice i even put a "O.T." notice on that part....
I wouldnt complain about taxes on the internet. The money has to come from SOMEWHERE. I say if there's a tax, we deal with it and move on. Our measly 0-8% sales taxes that our states charge is nothing... Most of canada charges 12% or more. Most/some european countries charge even more than that. It's really not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
taxing e-mails however would be terrible if they put that in place. (OT i know) i really hope they never implement a tax on that... time will tell though...
LOL i had to laugh at that one... im glad someone cleared that up for this poor guy. The source engine is a completely original work by valve... The HL engine was actually a completely rebuilt Q1 engine. Nothing to do with the Q2 engine... they downright "bought" the Q1 engine from it's creators and rebuilt it. hence the reason they were able to get graphics as "good" as those out of the Q1 engine
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did you son pee his pants because you did that or because you never DO do that and you did once? if you had started punishment such as this from the beginning he wouldnt have reacted to it in this way... i'm 22 years old and my parents definatley spared no rod in my household and i can honestly say i'm WAY better for it. They didnt do it out of anger or hatred or anything, but out of love and it works. and thats the bottom line....
i whole-heartedly agree. Spare the rod = spoil the child IMHO. i've seen this time and time again....
I've used webmin for something like 8 months now. i never had a need for a book but i must say that i LOVE webmin. the program is just about the best thing ever :-P
sounds like a good means for altering genes in the future. if they keep working at it, ya never know. i could be way off though
this whole sco thing is like one giant joke that has us all waiting for the big punchline...
invasion of privacy much? Can they force a student to install their filter?
Well, what do you expect to get when you download something that straight out says it's illegal? You're obiosly going to get more illegal stuff. I thought there was probably an alterior motive as soon as i heard about ES5. I guess not downloading it would have been the best strategy in the first place....
well, if i'm wrong, i stand corrected. it just didnt make sense to me. I guess if the prices fell fast enough that could be. :)
assuming i AM overestimating the stores profit, even if the store was making no profit at all, how could they produce it for 100 bucks?
I want to know how if they dont sell at a loss, how on earth they produce that console and all the stuff that comes with it for a small enough amount that they can have it selling for 99 bucks in the stores and still be making a profit on it. or even breaking even. you gotta figure the GC is probably around 70-80 "cost," and then the stores make 20-30 profit on that. that's gotta be a VERY cheap thing to produce. this it's possible? I dont see how they could break even quite honestly...
what you're thinking of is the virtual big screen's that they have. there's a dealy that goes in front of one eye and is about an inch wide and a half inch tall but after calibration for your eye it looks like it's 60". It's a really sweet little deal. there is already a wearable computer way smaller than that that uses it.
anyone know anything about the landwarior system that the military uses? they have a wearable computer for that that is smaller than a portable cd player, has GPS built in, runs a modified version of windows, allows troop communication and has a pentium 3 CPU. it's a heck of a lot cooler than that crap. i honestly dont know how they got THAT much stuff ti make a wearable computer. there are much smaller solutions already on the market...
no one holds any rights to the LOTR name or story. It's public domain. it was written ages ago before that stuff even existed. the MPAA cant do crap about it...
lol and any one of us knows we'd want it... It's a total gimmick, but it's be fun to show off (in the confines of your room where no one could see how much of a dork you really were...) The problem is that everything is external. they need to WAY cut back on some of the components there and enclose it INSIDE a jacket where people cant see it. Also, if you're going to make a jacket that has that much to it, it had BETTER be powered by something faster than a PDA. they have hard drive sized wearable computers out there that have real pentium CPU's in them. If you ask me, this jacket is a it of a waste of space and $$. fun idea, but no one would REALLY want to use it for its intended purpose. only to show off to their fellow nerds...
it's about time there's a gaming company that's taking a stand against this garbage...
agreed. i think there are some places when it's not over abused. in some parts of the HL2 vids it's rediculous, like where the guy is shot off the top of the light pole in the Barricade vid. the physics overreact so much that arms and legs do flailing everywhere and the body bounces and really looks dumb. but then there's the part in the same vid where the guy is blows up by the grenade and flies toward the player and bounces off thhe car. This part almost looks like there IS that resistance that is needed. the body lands exactly how you'd expect. i wonder if this is just coincedence or if there really was a difference in the two... i just thing they need to stop making a tech demo out of games and make the games realistic and fun.
i say: a unbelivable movie can be really good when presented in a believable way. (IE: the matrix) but if's so chock full of rediculous over-special effects, then it gets a little stupid. (IE: Minority Report (IMHO)) I think this goes for games as well. time will show that you need to have moderation in things like these... time will tell in any case...
with the creation of all the new physics engines such as the Havok system, i find that things get a little stupider in games. they seem to throw random objects in the game just so you can bounce them off the walls... the ragdoll physics on the models pretty much looks completely fake. it may look cool, but if you throw a body it wouldnt do that. there are points that you cant physically stretch past that they have the models go past. they turn all the joints into these springy balljoint's and it looks really....dumb. in the HL2 videos, the only stuff i didnt like was when he picked up the guy and he bounced all over the place. it just looked fake.... cant they add some resistance to the joints and a little stiffness like is natural???
yay! now terrorists can train to get around CIA agents! ....oh....
true, but part of beating your opponent is being able to respect that fact that there IS a threat there in the first place. you just have to respect your enemy... :-P
I cant wait to see what come out of this. the whole homeworld "series" of things has just been extremely impressive. I never liked RTS games until Homeworld and i actually turned up the volume on the music. normally i just turn down the volume. i hope someone does SOMETHING in any case... time will tell
eh, who knows. maybe he likes it :) I don't agree with his practices but some of them are quite imaginative... Quite honestly i hate spam and wouldn't blink if all the spammers suddenly fell off the earth, but ya gotta hand it to some of them. Imagine if they actually had the direction in life how much good some of them could do. kinda cool on one side but kinda a crying shame on the other... Kinda like a hacker. If he'd started developing security software instead of breaking through it, we'd all be better off... it's just a misplacement of skills.
LOL, i got a few good laughs out of his story. one of my favorite parts:
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'"I was thrown off more BellSouth accounts than half the state of Florida,'' Colbert says. His name was known, and he was a marked and wanted man. But he found a way around the heat. ''Do you remember when American Express came out with temporary credit cards?'' he recalls happily. ''You could go to the 7-11 convenience store and buy a $25 credit card -- sort of like you buy a $25 phone card, only it was good for just $25 worth of credit."
Armed with a dozen of these cards, Colbert would go to the BellSouth Web site and create numerous e-mail accounts from which to send spam, each account with a fictitious name and address. Since the credit card couldn't be connected to him in any way, he could spam away until BellSouth finally got around to canceling that particular account. ''They were great, totally untraceable,'' he says of the credit cards. ''They don't sell them anymore. I think it's because of me.'' '
pretty smart feller
lol apologies as well. i think i was in bad mood mode there for a min :-D
if you bothered to read my reply carefully you'll notice that it was a side topic. the issue was not about e-mail. it was about internet sales tax, i just interjected a comment about how they taxing e-mails would be terrible...
you'll notice i even put a "O.T." notice on that part....
sheesh, read before you flame....
I wouldnt complain about taxes on the internet. The money has to come from SOMEWHERE. I say if there's a tax, we deal with it and move on. Our measly 0-8% sales taxes that our states charge is nothing... Most of canada charges 12% or more. Most/some european countries charge even more than that. It's really not as bad as everyone is making it out to be.
taxing e-mails however would be terrible if they put that in place. (OT i know) i really hope they never implement a tax on that... time will tell though...
LOL i had to laugh at that one... im glad someone cleared that up for this poor guy. The source engine is a completely original work by valve... The HL engine was actually a completely rebuilt Q1 engine. Nothing to do with the Q2 engine... they downright "bought" the Q1 engine from it's creators and rebuilt it. hence the reason they were able to get graphics as "good" as those out of the Q1 engine