pretty damn silly. Japanese sex games have done this for years. And at least with them you're eventually rewarded with some anime/CG nudity and sexual situations.
Seems stupid to have this when you can't even get some good stroke material out the other end.
I refused to help from then on out. Let him handle it when the machine is so slow and the webpages won't load properly.
I had the same problem with my Aunt. Atleast my Mom, has come to release a little inconvenience now will save a lot of trouble later on. Not my Aunt. I'll go over to her place and go into full triage mode and a week later we'd be back at square one.
"Zone Alarm was bugging me too much so I turned it off."
"Firefox wouldn't load so I went back to IE."
I considered switching my family over to Linux for a while, but who needs that kind of aggravation.
they're RC but seem to differ from your average battle bots in that the RC triggers complex sequences.
(Like a sequence that stands the robot back up) rather than just driving back/forward, Slamming the hammer etc. Pretty freaking cool even if not fully programmed.
I found out about Craigslist looking for my first apartment (They have the best free lisitings for major cities anywhere)
I checked out the Women seeking men pages and you can usual find a freak or two but my internet sensibilites always tell me they've either got to be guys fooling round or seriosuly overweight.
I remember the first time I wne to the site. My co-worker was on a speaker phone conference. Everyone on the line went quiet and one guy said "What the hell was that?" and someone else answered "Star Trek II".
but then I don't necessarily trust the supercomputing expertise of a bunch of Lunix fanboys "administering a network" in their parents' basement either.
Aren't the people running these top 6 clusters part of various Universities and Research Labs?
I would think they would know if their cluster is doing what they want it to do. And if they have something that does the job, why should they go out and hand Cray several million dollars to build them something that Cray says is better?
You can't have it both ways. Either you accept advertisements (which allow you to watch stuff for free) or you pay for content (yes, that includes the garbage).
Untrue. A number of my friends have HBO. Why? Deadwood & The Sopranos. No other reason. Ocasionaly they may watch a movie or some of HBO's other content. But for them its worth it to pay $10 a month extra to watch two shows. Capitalism at its core is simple. Give people smething they want and they'll pay for it(like HBO). Give them crap a whole lot of crap for free or cheap and they'll pay for something else that trims the crap and JUST gives em what they want (TIVO, iTunes music store).
As tech advances to where you don'tneed all kinds of million dollar exquipment to do the above, this becomes more and more true.
Ford did the same thing for Alias to the poitn where a car chase in Switzerland invovled two Ford Focus Hatchbacks.
There was also a car chase in a park garage where Sark and Lauren stole a Mustang and started raming there way out and Sydney chased down in an F-150. Not to mention everyone in the show uses a Nokia. Just about every show I watch (except DEADWOOD)has this kind of blatant placement. And while I wouldn't be caught dead in a Ford, and won't buy a Nokia since the last two I had lasted less than a year each. I must admit I went out and bought a pair of Mountain Research Glacier Sunglasses (O'Neil in Stargate SG1 wears em).
Exactly. Look at how blatant product placement has gotten in the last few years.
I didn't know what Nokia's theme sounded like until I started watching Alias.
Besides, I frankly couldn't care less at this point if Network TV went belly up because no watches the ads anymore. Its all reality TV shit at this point. Just about the only decent TV left anymore is on Cable and mostly of it on premium cable you have to pay for.
So the NFL and the like could cry me a river. I just don't care, and while they don't realize it or won't admit it, its completely their fault.
You see this is why context is so important in any discussion. The full text of my orginal comment follows.
Definitely. In all seriousness though, Castro wouldn't do it. Whatever you think of the guy and his politics you have to admit he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators. The guy's not stupid. He's knows how to stay off the radar.
Now its quite obvious that I'm speaking about Castro in this paragraph. I start off by mentioning Castro by name in the second sentence. I also assert in the follow-up sentence that "he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators..." since 1. I didn't mention Mr Simpson and 2. I also use the word "dictator" its pretty obvious that I didn't switch the subject of my discussion to Mr. Simpson and since el Presidente Castro is the only other person I have mentioned by name up till now, I think it would be prett evident that I am still refering to Mr. Castro.
Now for me to suddenly change subjects 3/4 of the way through my statement to Mr. Simpson without implicitly stating so would be total incomprehensible to anyone who happens to read it. Since you are the only who seemed to misunderstand the meaning of my final two statements, tells me that the problem is with your understanding and not with my writing. Secondly since you decided to attack me rather than asking for clarification or something you misunderstood, tells me something about your ability to hold a rational conversation.
And finally and least importantly, if you happened to come across one of my many other comments on this article you would have noticed that I mention several times that mouthing off about building cruise missles for anyone who asks is porbably not the best course of action, for someone who values his continued existence.
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I guess my computer is running on the collective halucination of several million geeks worldwide. kickass!
Seems stupid to have this when you can't even get some good stroke material out the other end.
"Zone Alarm was bugging me too much so I turned it off."
"Firefox wouldn't load so I went back to IE."
I considered switching my family over to Linux for a while, but who needs that kind of aggravation.
I was pretty unimpressed till I saw how cool they are in action
they're RC but seem to differ from your average battle bots in that the RC triggers complex sequences. (Like a sequence that stands the robot back up) rather than just driving back/forward, Slamming the hammer etc. Pretty freaking cool even if not fully programmed.
I checked out the Women seeking men pages and you can usual find a freak or two but my internet sensibilites always tell me they've either got to be guys fooling round or seriosuly overweight.
and then there's stuff like this (no pics).
Doesn't mean I'd want to buy games from them.
Chewbacca, dude. Chewbacca.
dude why are you so obessed with iPod and TiVO. I swear everytime iPod and Tivo are mentioned I look up and see your login.
and what makes you think Uncle Microsoft wouldn't foot the bill?
rofl. I can't wait to see Darl quoting you in a speech.
I remember the first time I wne to the site. My co-worker was on a speaker phone conference. Everyone on the line went quiet and one guy said "What the hell was that?" and someone else answered "Star Trek II".
http://www.khaaan.com/
Today, not so much. Who knows what the future holds.
Don't joke about that Ahrrnold is Governor which is one step closing to being President.
Aren't the people running these top 6 clusters part of various Universities and Research Labs?
I would think they would know if their cluster is doing what they want it to do. And if they have something that does the job, why should they go out and hand Cray several million dollars to build them something that Cray says is better?
Its good reading.
but how do you pronounce this guys name?
Seriously now. I just want to know.
Untrue. A number of my friends have HBO. Why? Deadwood & The Sopranos. No other reason. Ocasionaly they may watch a movie or some of HBO's other content. But for them its worth it to pay $10 a month extra to watch two shows. Capitalism at its core is simple. Give people smething they want and they'll pay for it(like HBO). Give them crap a whole lot of crap for free or cheap and they'll pay for something else that trims the crap and JUST gives em what they want (TIVO, iTunes music store).
As tech advances to where you don'tneed all kinds of million dollar exquipment to do the above, this becomes more and more true.
There was also a car chase in a park garage where Sark and Lauren stole a Mustang and started raming there way out and Sydney chased down in an F-150. Not to mention everyone in the show uses a Nokia. Just about every show I watch (except DEADWOOD)has this kind of blatant placement. And while I wouldn't be caught dead in a Ford, and won't buy a Nokia since the last two I had lasted less than a year each. I must admit I went out and bought a pair of Mountain Research Glacier Sunglasses (O'Neil in Stargate SG1 wears em).
Dude. Don't go giving Valenti any ideas.
I didn't know what Nokia's theme sounded like until I started watching Alias.
Besides, I frankly couldn't care less at this point if Network TV went belly up because no watches the ads anymore. Its all reality TV shit at this point. Just about the only decent TV left anymore is on Cable and mostly of it on premium cable you have to pay for.
So the NFL and the like could cry me a river. I just don't care, and while they don't realize it or won't admit it, its completely their fault.
ROFLMAO!! I haven't so hard all day.
next you'll be telling me IE keeps my computer safe from worms...I'd file this in the sucks-to-be-me dept.
Definitely. In all seriousness though, Castro wouldn't do it. Whatever you think of the guy and his politics you have to admit he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators. The guy's not stupid. He's knows how to stay off the radar.
Now its quite obvious that I'm speaking about Castro in this paragraph. I start off by mentioning Castro by name in the second sentence. I also assert in the follow-up sentence that "he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators..." since 1. I didn't mention Mr Simpson and 2. I also use the word "dictator" its pretty obvious that I didn't switch the subject of my discussion to Mr. Simpson and since el Presidente Castro is the only other person I have mentioned by name up till now, I think it would be prett evident that I am still refering to Mr. Castro.
Now for me to suddenly change subjects 3/4 of the way through my statement to Mr. Simpson without implicitly stating so would be total incomprehensible to anyone who happens to read it. Since you are the only who seemed to misunderstand the meaning of my final two statements, tells me that the problem is with your understanding and not with my writing. Secondly since you decided to attack me rather than asking for clarification or something you misunderstood, tells me something about your ability to hold a rational conversation.
And finally and least importantly, if you happened to come across one of my many other comments on this article you would have noticed that I mention several times that mouthing off about building cruise missles for anyone who asks is porbably not the best course of action, for someone who values his continued existence.