"We think this is a huge innovation story," said Mario Juarez, Microsoft's group product manager for the company's security business unit. "This is just an extension of the way the current version of Windows has provided innovation for players up and down the broad landscape of computing."
will be available at Kokumin Co. drugstores, marking the first time for video game software to be sold at drugstores
Are you kidding? I bought Missile Command and Space Invaders cartridges for the Atari 8-bits at a Longs Drugs in the mid-'80s -- and they were old games on clearance from the videogame bust by then!
Instead of developing this strictly for laptops, why not come up with a general-purpose methanol (or other) fuel-cell? One where you could have your choice of plug type, polarity, voltage, and AC or DC? Like one of those omni-usage wall-warts, but without the wall? If it were no bigger than, say, a six-pack, I bet it would be more than useful for travelers of any sort.
Make the cameras use x-ray backscattering (as in the earlier story today) of your face. Then in order to spoof the system, a printout of your picture (generated from the hash or not) would not work -- you'd have to build something that recreates your x-ray backscatter and show that to the camera. (I'm assuming that would be much more difficult, like making a sculpture out of meat or something -- anyone in the know wish to shoot down my theory?)
Of course, then there's the issue of getting x-rayed in the face every time you walk in the door...
Intersexuality -- women having and/or being induced to have penises, permanently or temporarily
Fantasy Orgasms -- orgasms causing unusual physical effects, e.g. explosions, comas, alteration of the physical laws of the universe, etc. (also covers women having one or more orgasms upon their first time ever having sex)
Universal Bisexuality -- takes place in a universe where everyone is bisexual (or omnisexual, in the case of universes with more than one sex)
Psychosexual Geneva Syndrome -- women who are raped fall in love with their rapists and live happily ever after
Disingenuous Captioning -- textual notes appear at random, "explaining" that the situation is not as it seems, e.g. "They aren't really sisters, they just call each other that"
Extreme Demographic Imbalance -- more than 90% of the characters are of a specific gender, specific range of bra cup sizes, specific taste in sexual activity, etc.
Comedicus Interruptus -- sexual scenes are interrupted by random slapstick or other broad comedy
Dysfunctional Ending -- story ends on inexplicable downer note, or ending seems to take place but then continues, or innumerable storylines are left unresolved
Self-Deprecation By Proxy -- one or more characters are chided or chide themselves for consuming too many games/videos/movies of this type
Stop playing our songs with your little so-called "band members". Just because you call it a "cover" and say it's a "tribute" doesn't mean you're not in criminal violation. (By the way, send us a demo and maybe we'll sign you up for indentured servitude...er, I mean, lucrative arrangements. Heh heh.)
Stop playing your CDs for your friends to hear. That constitutes a public performance and makes you a criminal.
If we hear you humming one of our songs while walking down the street, it's curtains for you, buddy.
If we catch you remembering a song of ours inside your head (an illegal copy for sure), we'll slap a lawsuit on you so fast your head will spin (which should induce Leslie-like effects in the tune, which will be considered a derivative work...now we're talkin' big bucks).
I have to say, the NYT article didn't make me think this guy is some kind of loser. I think that should carry the weight of a nonbiased observer, coming from someone whose peak of online gaming involvement was "Multiplayer Jeopardy Online!" or "Acrophobia" (anyone remember those?) for a couple hours a week for a month or two. Not exactly Mr. Intarweb Society Supremo.
There were repeated quotes from various people that he was such a nice guy and he helps people out and everyone loves and admires him and so on. It mentioned he's having some financial difficulties, but hey, who isn't these days? He spends a nontrivial amount of time doing something most people don't? So what? Doesn't nearly everyone? (Particularly everyone reading this right now. I'm looking at you, Gentle Slashdot Reader.) He works, he has a wife...let 'im have his play-time. Such was my reaction.
Mind you, I have known someone who was truly consumed by this kind of thing; it was a freshman at my college back in '92-'93 (when I was a senior). The guy was clearly unprepared to live on his own effectively. Within a couple of months of the beginning of the year, he was pretty much a fixture in front of his computer, playing MUDs and ordering Domino's. I'm not sure he even attended any classes after awhile. So, clearly, this kind of thing can and does happen, but I by no means got the impression from the NYT article that this was anywhere near the case with this "The Deacon" fella.
So what am I saying? Simply: No big deal. It's a good item to have in your bag of jokes and/or stories, Mr. Deacon. Something you can tell at barbecues or snicker about over beers with the guys. Move on.
Maybe I'm dense or something (Get it? Dense? Black holes? Ehh.), but nothing on that site tells me that the event horizon is anything but a sphere. It seems to be saying that the "static limit" (region within which nothing can remain stationary) can be an oblate spheroid.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's this week's list of stolen credit card information.
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Name: Nigel Branthwaite
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Name: Susan Dandrige
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Name: Valerie McCandless
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Name: Jose Suarez
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Name: Huong Nguyen
Thanks, and check back next week!Number: 4897 6215 7894 1236
Exp: 02/04
Sec Code: 845
Number: 9815 9815 1265 7493
Exp: 05/05
Sec Code: 087
Number: 1569 1598 3565 9855
Exp: 12/03
Sec Code: 196
Number: 1859 3584 6188 1518
Exp: 07/06
Sec Code: 659
Number: 5899 1594 2987 1926
Exp: 01/05
Sec Code: 475
...deck of 52 of these.
(Fooled ya, didn't I!)
Instead of developing this strictly for laptops, why not come up with a general-purpose methanol (or other) fuel-cell? One where you could have your choice of plug type, polarity, voltage, and AC or DC? Like one of those omni-usage wall-warts, but without the wall? If it were no bigger than, say, a six-pack, I bet it would be more than useful for travelers of any sort.
I suppose that's what happens when the last epsiode of Star Trek: The Next Generation collides with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
"Majority rules" is true to within sufficiently large tolerances for values of "majority". Be nice if the tolerance were one vote, but...
...it does.
Dammit. Again, note to self: remember to put your brain in gear before posting.
Right you are. Oh well, one famous European city in a country that starts with "Sw" or another, what's the difference, right?
(Everyone, please edit your mirror of my important proto-faq appropriately.)
Arrrg. That should be "more than two sexes".
(Don't proofread with your brain in neutral, kids.)
Make the cameras use x-ray backscattering (as in the earlier story today) of your face. Then in order to spoof the system, a printout of your picture (generated from the hash or not) would not work -- you'd have to build something that recreates your x-ray backscatter and show that to the camera. (I'm assuming that would be much more difficult, like making a sculpture out of meat or something -- anyone in the know wish to shoot down my theory?)
Of course, then there's the issue of getting x-rayed in the face every time you walk in the door...
...they start doling out blocks of 2^32 addresses to every company that asks.
We wouldn't need all of IPv4's space for a long time, if only they were assigned one (or, at most, 256) at a time.
Applicable to games, videos, and movies.
Intersexuality -- women having and/or being induced to have penises, permanently or temporarily
Fantasy Orgasms -- orgasms causing unusual physical effects, e.g. explosions, comas, alteration of the physical laws of the universe, etc. (also covers women having one or more orgasms upon their first time ever having sex)
Universal Bisexuality -- takes place in a universe where everyone is bisexual (or omnisexual, in the case of universes with more than one sex)
Psychosexual Geneva Syndrome -- women who are raped fall in love with their rapists and live happily ever after
Disingenuous Captioning -- textual notes appear at random, "explaining" that the situation is not as it seems, e.g. "They aren't really sisters, they just call each other that"
Extreme Demographic Imbalance -- more than 90% of the characters are of a specific gender, specific range of bra cup sizes, specific taste in sexual activity, etc.
Comedicus Interruptus -- sexual scenes are interrupted by random slapstick or other broad comedy
Dysfunctional Ending -- story ends on inexplicable downer note, or ending seems to take place but then continues, or innumerable storylines are left unresolved
Self-Deprecation By Proxy -- one or more characters are chided or chide themselves for consuming too many games/videos/movies of this type
David Lightman, Jr.'s weapon of choice.
...it seems a new record has been set for posts per minute for a single article on Slashdot. Details at eleven.
Looks like ternary to me.
I have to say, the NYT article didn't make me think this guy is some kind of loser. I think that should carry the weight of a nonbiased observer, coming from someone whose peak of online gaming involvement was "Multiplayer Jeopardy Online!" or "Acrophobia" (anyone remember those?) for a couple hours a week for a month or two. Not exactly Mr. Intarweb Society Supremo.
There were repeated quotes from various people that he was such a nice guy and he helps people out and everyone loves and admires him and so on. It mentioned he's having some financial difficulties, but hey, who isn't these days? He spends a nontrivial amount of time doing something most people don't? So what? Doesn't nearly everyone? (Particularly everyone reading this right now. I'm looking at you, Gentle Slashdot Reader.) He works, he has a wife...let 'im have his play-time. Such was my reaction.
Mind you, I have known someone who was truly consumed by this kind of thing; it was a freshman at my college back in '92-'93 (when I was a senior). The guy was clearly unprepared to live on his own effectively. Within a couple of months of the beginning of the year, he was pretty much a fixture in front of his computer, playing MUDs and ordering Domino's. I'm not sure he even attended any classes after awhile. So, clearly, this kind of thing can and does happen, but I by no means got the impression from the NYT article that this was anywhere near the case with this "The Deacon" fella.
So what am I saying? Simply: No big deal. It's a good item to have in your bag of jokes and/or stories, Mr. Deacon. Something you can tell at barbecues or snicker about over beers with the guys. Move on.
forever and ever, in spiritu santcum. Amen.
...swim through there. I dares ya. I DOUBLE DOG dares ya.
"How about a splash of water on this hot summer day?"
"YayyyyAAIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"
Maybe I'm dense or something (Get it? Dense? Black holes? Ehh.), but nothing on that site tells me that the event horizon is anything but a sphere. It seems to be saying that the "static limit" (region within which nothing can remain stationary) can be an oblate spheroid.
I say bring on the corn-based replacements for all petroleum products. Then the US would start to rake in all those dollars that currently go to OPEC.
No one will look in there to steal your Altoids.
However, the possibility of someone unknowningly throwing all your Altoids away in a fit of anti-AOL hostility is distinct.