I had my grandmother tell me her account of living through that epidemic. She lost two brothers then.
The symptoms werent pretty, and everyone was paranoid... even in the rural area she lived in, every family lost members.
I was totally creeped out by the details.
And people were much more community oriented back then... I can only imagine what would happen if such an epidemic occured today in individualistic North America...
What is the Slashdotters' opinion on anonynous proxies?
I personally find the web variety very useful to browse Slashdot, since Slashdot banned a large IP range in which I belong, due to some a-hole using scripts targetting this site.
I equate Anonymous Cowards with Anonymous proxies in that they enable trolls, offtopics and first-posters.
I find irony in that for all the anti-spam stance promoted by the slashdot editors and slashdotters in general, this site cant seem to find an uber-geek technical solution to thread-spamming here.
I plan on installing PC hardware and software in it for the ultimate digital audio device case mod.
Look for my fake joke story next week on slashdot about an Ipod that my parents gave me, but which I completely overhauled because I liked the iRiver better.
I've never played that game due to lack of interest, and from reading a bit about it, I wasnt able to determine who plays the opposing force... players or bots?
If players are the opposing force, then it should be fairly simple to organize an "anti-America" group of players with game options that favor terrorist behavior...
I'm not entirely sure if this idea would be well received, considering the aim of AA, but it might have interesting results, if non-bots control terrorist fighters.
I dont always have the time or inclination to go to the movie rental store, and face the possibility that a movie I want to see has been rented by someone else already.
So whenever I happen to be near the store, I go browse the movies that interest me, and rent a few.
When I get home, if I dont have time to watch them within the rental time frame, I rip them to my HD until I can watch them, then I delete the rip.
What's wrong with selling/giving the server software to the people who buy and play your games, like Epic does for Unreal Tournament?
Sure, at first there's a gazillion servers to choose from, with ping times all over the spectrum, but eventually things settle down and you can weed out the good from the bad, or even form closed servers (eg clan servers).
You must have watched Rock & Rule (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/) one too many times...
Genre: Animation / Sci-Fi / Musical Plot summary: Angel, a member of a punk rock band in the apocoliptic(sic) future, is kidnapped by Mok, a legendary superocker. Obsessed with a dark experiment, Mok plans to use Angel's voice to summon a demon from another dimension. The rest of the band follows Mok to Nuke York in an attempt to get her back.
not quite an electronics hack, and not quite a full modification... more like a hacked add-on accessory...
When the Hasselblad Xpan (makes 24mm x 60 mm panoramic frames on 35mm film) was first marketed, I drooled over the ads, but didnt have the budget for it.
But I did have a medium format Rolleicord TLR (which makes 60mm x 60mm frames on 120 film), and I knew that a 35mm film adapter existed for it, so I shopped around used camera store until I found one that had kits.
Now the full kit prevents you from not using the 35mm mask (to make 24mm x 36mm frames).
Luckily, the store manager had an incomplete kit, which I got at a substantial discount from a complete (collectible priced) kit.
So I used the two parts that serve to hold the 35mm film canister, and used some medical duct tape wound on either end of a 120 film spool to narrow the space for the 35mm film and voila!
Cheap "real panoramic" 35mm photos.
The only downside is that I have to rewind the film in a changebag or in a darkroom.
if the photo on the flybar's website is realistic, i cant imagine what would happen to the user if he lost his balance...
i mean, the footprint of that thing is not enough to make the flybar usable on grass, which means it's going to be used mostly on asphalt and concrete.
then again, i fancy myself racing with a buddy on a local bikepath, doing 5 foot high leaps... enough to scare the crap out of the rollerbladers, who incidentally already pissoff the bicycle riders to no end...
the vast majority of people who use broadband internet at home dont connect with a battery-powered laptop, so if the power and power-line-broadband-internet go out, so does the electrically powered home computer.
I agree with this whole thread, but I'd like to add a few things.
Given that a lot of cheaters have already moved in, it should motivate Epic and whoever else has the means, to develop a kickass anticheat system.
I'm not a big fan of Assault, but I love Onslaught. Onslaught is not without problems though, mostly player-side behaviour, but this should help in the long run to motivate people into building maps to cater to the redeemer/raptor-obsessed lamers.
Personally, I hope someone does a 100% accurate Vice City map in UT2k4.;)
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"But I don't think the dangers are exaggerated."
I had my grandmother tell me her account of living through that epidemic. She lost two brothers then.
The symptoms werent pretty, and everyone was paranoid... even in the rural area she lived in, every family lost members.
I was totally creeped out by the details.
And people were much more community oriented back then... I can only imagine what would happen if such an epidemic occured today in individualistic North America...
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What is the Slashdotters' opinion on anonynous proxies?
I personally find the web variety very useful to browse Slashdot, since Slashdot banned a large IP range in which I belong, due to some a-hole using scripts targetting this site.
I equate Anonymous Cowards with Anonymous proxies in that they enable trolls, offtopics and first-posters.
I find irony in that for all the anti-spam stance promoted by the slashdot editors and slashdotters in general, this site cant seem to find an uber-geek technical solution to thread-spamming here.
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!
He gave me the iPod case.
I plan on installing PC hardware and software in it for the ultimate digital audio device case mod.
Look for my fake joke story next week on slashdot about an Ipod that my parents gave me, but which I completely overhauled because I liked the iRiver better.
First few weeks at a new job: So energized, able to work 24/7, and glad to do it.
Past the initial enthusiasm: High stress due to harsh deadlines.
After realizing that deadlines arent really important anyway: Stress evaporates due to mounting cynicism.
After job loss: Zero stress while on Unemployment insurance.
End of unemployment insurance looms: High stress of finding a new job.
First few weeks of new job... Repeat cycle.
I've never played that game due to lack of interest, and from reading a bit about it, I wasnt able to determine who plays the opposing force... players or bots?
If players are the opposing force, then it should be fairly simple to organize an "anti-America" group of players with game options that favor terrorist behavior...
I'm not entirely sure if this idea would be well received, considering the aim of AA, but it might have interesting results, if non-bots control terrorist fighters.
"when was the last time you felt grass on your bare feet?"
isnt going to the park one of the advantages of having a laptop?
I think it's fair-use...
I dont always have the time or inclination to go to the movie rental store, and face the possibility that a movie I want to see has been rented by someone else already.
So whenever I happen to be near the store, I go browse the movies that interest me, and rent a few.
When I get home, if I dont have time to watch them within the rental time frame, I rip them to my HD until I can watch them, then I delete the rip.
now we'll have Roman Catholic Zealots join forces with the Linux Zealots?
What's wrong with selling/giving the server software to the people who buy and play your games, like Epic does for Unreal Tournament?
Sure, at first there's a gazillion servers to choose from, with ping times all over the spectrum, but eventually things settle down and you can weed out the good from the bad, or even form closed servers (eg clan servers).
You must have watched Rock & Rule (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086203/) one too many times...
Genre: Animation / Sci-Fi / Musical
Plot summary: Angel, a member of a punk rock band in the apocoliptic(sic) future, is kidnapped by Mok, a legendary superocker. Obsessed with a dark experiment, Mok plans to use Angel's voice to summon a demon from another dimension. The rest of the band follows Mok to Nuke York in an attempt to get her back.
Losedows
bummer, those links dont seem to work today... sorry
i dont know what to call it in English... it's white and about 1 cm wide.
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It behaves like duct tape when you rip it, it's waterproof and very sticky.
here's what I'm talking about, plus an example of a photo I took with it (using Kodak False Color Infrared slide film crossprocessed in C41)
somehow slashdot introduces a space in the name of the jpg file, so please delete it...
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/uploads/cam
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
http://photoshop.superdownloads.net/up
not quite an electronics hack, and not quite a full modification... more like a hacked add-on accessory...
When the Hasselblad Xpan (makes 24mm x 60 mm panoramic frames on 35mm film) was first marketed, I drooled over the ads, but didnt have the budget for it.
But I did have a medium format Rolleicord TLR (which makes 60mm x 60mm frames on 120 film), and I knew that a 35mm film adapter existed for it, so I shopped around used camera store until I found one that had kits.
Now the full kit prevents you from not using the 35mm mask (to make 24mm x 36mm frames).
Luckily, the store manager had an incomplete kit, which I got at a substantial discount from a complete (collectible priced) kit.
So I used the two parts that serve to hold the 35mm film canister, and used some medical duct tape wound on either end of a 120 film spool to narrow the space for the 35mm film and voila!
Cheap "real panoramic" 35mm photos.
The only downside is that I have to rewind the film in a changebag or in a darkroom.
if the photo on the flybar's website is realistic, i cant imagine what would happen to the user if he lost his balance...
i mean, the footprint of that thing is not enough to make the flybar usable on grass, which means it's going to be used mostly on asphalt and concrete.
then again, i fancy myself racing with a buddy on a local bikepath, doing 5 foot high leaps... enough to scare the crap out of the rollerbladers, who incidentally already pissoff the bicycle riders to no end...
I hope they start selling a t-shirt with a giant version of those tags printed on the front.
"Are you fucking retarded? Please never post again"
:P
1) yes I am.
2) oops.
the vast majority of people who use broadband internet at home dont connect with a battery-powered laptop, so if the power and power-line-broadband-internet go out, so does the electrically powered home computer.
doh
they must've updated their page since the last time I looked at it.
someone linked it a while ago at sensibleerection.com (not quite safe for work uncensored weblog)
I got all excited by this gizmo, but then I searched and searched and couldnt find any indication that this thing has any firewire or usb 2.0 ports.
What a bummer.
I agree with this whole thread, but I'd like to add a few things.
;)
Given that a lot of cheaters have already moved in, it should motivate Epic and whoever else has the means, to develop a kickass anticheat system.
I'm not a big fan of Assault, but I love Onslaught. Onslaught is not without problems though, mostly player-side behaviour, but this should help in the long run to motivate people into building maps to cater to the redeemer/raptor-obsessed lamers.
Personally, I hope someone does a 100% accurate Vice City map in UT2k4.
will my Sims character be able to make my SimCity character make my Pentagon MMO character play a game of America's Army?
That would be cool.
when it runs Lin---s, will we have to call it...
PdashISM?