About the site that contained the excercises for penis enlargement... how do they research the techniques? Does the R&D division just play with their penises all day long?
Wouldn't that be interesting? Get paid to jack off all day...
Well, since I've never personally watched any of those I listed above (seen people talk about it), it's sorta hard to believe (to Westerners) that it's possible to get a story out of most hentai games. It's like... porn that can have the porn stripped out of it and made into a normal story. I can't see anyone making a PG-rated movie out of Debbie Does Dallas anytime soon;)
Some non-hentai anime series that are based off hgames include Kanon, To Heart, Yumeria, Comic Party, Popotan, Green Green, KGNE, Happy Lesson, Tsukihime and Da Capo.
I'm only following Yumeria at the moment, and I can only tell you most of the action is based in a dream world, where all the female characters are dressed in skimpy outfits and undergo one of those Sailor Moon-style transformation (I think, anyway. Never watched SM in my whole life). Bounce is exaggerated a bit, but there is no actual 'H' scenes. Yet.
Few of the more deep hgames that I've played will most likely have to include Dividead, for it's excellent plot, great use of sound, and of course, the excellent graphics;)
One of the first things you must do with Dividead, is play it at night, after you send the kids to bed, with the lights off, your speakers turned all the way up...
Another good hgame is Private Nurse, for it's plot and voice acting, along with it's excellent music. A version has been released for PS2 that removes the 'H' factor from the game (Yes! It's still playable without the adult scenes)
Both have been translated to English, hence the reason that I've played them.
You realise that number is absolutely puny compared to Go?
Go is played on the intersections of 19x19 lines. A game starts off with no stones on the board, and black plays first. Black can place a stone wherever he wants, and so can white except in some circumstances.
Using my rather limited maths skills, let's calculate the possibilites of the first ten moves (not counting possible captures).
That's the first ten moves. So, let's just imagine a match, with half the board filled and no captures are made. To make it simple, I'm just going to leave out the n-1 thing.
Of course, Go games could go on for infinity. The best Go programs are at the level of a 10-kyu player, which is only intermediate. Therefore, I reckon Go is a pretty damn intricate game;p
Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of "the Farewell dossier": how a C.I.A. campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia - all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss - helped us win the cold war.
Weiss worked down the hall from me in the Nixon administration. In early 1974, he wrote a report on Soviet advances in technology through purchasing and copying that led the beleaguered president - detente notwithstanding - to place restrictions on the export of computers and software to the U.S.S.R.
Seven years later, we learned how the K.G.B. responded. I was writing a series of hard-line columns denouncing the financial backing being given Moscow by Germany and Britain for a major natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. That project would give control of European energy supplies to the Communists, as well as generate $8 billion a year to support Soviet computer and satellite research.
President Francois Mitterrand of France also opposed the gas pipeline. He took President Reagan aside at a conference in Ottawa on July 19, 1981, to reveal that France had recruited a key K.G.B. officer in Moscow Center.
Col. Vladimir Vetrov provided what French intelligence called the Farewell dossier. It contained documents from the K.G.B. Technology Directorate showing how the Soviets were systematically stealing - or secretly buying through third parties - the radar, machine tools and semiconductors to keep the Russians nearly competitive with U.S. military-industrial strength through the 70's. In effect, the U.S. was in an arms race with itself.
Reagan passed this on to William J. Casey, his director of central intelligence, now remembered only for the Iran-contra fiasco. Casey called in Weiss, then working with Thomas C. Reed on the staff of the National Security Council. After studying the list of hundreds of Soviet agents and purchasers (including one cosmonaut) assigned to this penetration in the U.S. and Japan, Weiss counseled against deportation.
Instead, according to Reed - a former Air Force secretary whose fascinating cold war book, "At the Abyss," will be published by Random House next month - Weiss said: "Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it." The catch: computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation.
In our complex disinformation scheme, deliberately flawed designs for stealth technology and space defense sent Russian scientists down paths that wasted time and money.
The technology topping the Soviets' wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their overt purchase order, the K.G.B. sent a covert agent into a Canadian company to steal the software; tipped off by Farewell, we added what geeks call a "Trojan Horse" to the pirated product.
"The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed, "to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
Our Norad monitors feared a nuclear detonation, but satellites that would have picked up its electromagnetic pulse were silent. That mystified many in the White House, but "Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry. It took him another twenty years to tell me why."
Farewell stayed secret because the blast in June 1982, estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness, with no casualties known. Nor was the red-faced K.G.B. about to complain publicly about being tricked by bogus technology. But all the software it had stolen for years was suddenly suspect, which stopped or delayed the work of thous
In fact, you can sign up for SCO's Expulsion and Termination Intiative at Home program simply by clicking here. Remember, the more times you click it, the higher your score will be!
Uh... I'm sure lots of mp3 players have digital FM tuners... iRiver players do, and my MSI Megastick 256 does too, and it can record straight from FM.
I bet nobody has a beowulf cluster of...
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VIBRATORS!
In addition, with some, surely somewhat hopeful research* suggesting that the average home contains 250 devices (toasters, electric toothbrushes, vibrators?)
So the researchers decide to include vibrators too? Imagine the fun in that, vibrator hacking... set speed=vagina-shattering *scream from the other side of the dorm* "Heh heh heh..."
"A large gathering of people have gathered to protest outside Slashdot HQ after the website linked to a test page hosted on the new wireless blimp. Within seconds, millions of geeks accessed it, crashing the blimp's navigational system, engine systems, and of course the web server itself. The blimp just missed the Pentagon by a mile or so, but people already have started to call Slashdot 'a bunch of geeky terrorists'."
DISCLAIMER: not affliated with Studio ADTRW in any way.
..of the ugly concept art, I'm pleased to announce that Girlfriend of Steel 2 is being scanslated by Studio ADTRW. Some of you hardcore NGE fanboys would have heard of the Girlfriend of Steel, or even played the game, where you play through visual-novel-like game set in the middle of the original NGE timeline, where a new girl joins the fray, named Mana. Yes, it's romance, but wait! There's more!
Girlfriend of Steel 2 is a manga that is based off the short alternate-universe clip at the end of episode 26, where everybody is happy, no Angels around to destroy the place, and Shinji looks at Rei's panties. Yes, the last bit is true, and Misato's their teacher, Kaoru makes a comeback (and retains his homosexual tendancies) but there's no sign of Kaji yet. And Gendo's still a bastard, and still runs NERV... But the manga has done a pretty good job of it so far. Only 3 chapters have been released so far so get it quick and use the torrents!
Dammit! I only liked Eva because Misato had insanely large breasts!:P
Anyway, jokes aside, I have a bad feeling what this is gonna turn out to be. Changing the names, changing the age, this is gonna suck. And Rei was actually sorta-unique because her hair was nice light blue, and I know many fans like her cause of that. And from this link, it seems that they will only focus on the first couple of series. That means a sequel could be possible, maybe more. Why dumb it down? One of the reasons the Matrix was interesting because it made you THINK! I agree with the characters being ugly, but I'm not set my mind in stone until I've seen the movie.
They better make Rei/Ray hot or a lot of fans will riot:o. And is it just me or does 'Ray' sound like a guy's name?
I have found that my school's IT staff are just don't know anything about computers in general. They feel more secure spending money on expensive solutions but don't know how to use them, and when things go run, start running around the room in circles like a headless chicken.
Eight examples:
1) When I was down at the IT department not too long ago, I found most of them hunt and pecking. Not a good sign, I assure you.
2) Related to the first example, I was down there to help them install Apache, PHP and gVIM because they didn't know how to do it. Not that hard for me, but maybe to some people who have to hunt and peck.
3) The girl I was helping (she looked like an intern or something, maybe that explains it) gave me read/write access on one of the directories on the server's PUBLIC drives so I can make changes if needed without bothering her.
4) I have gotten 40 people in detention for playing games copied from the folder. They were caught in one day.
5) The whole network lags to shit whenever a class logs on. They don't seem to know how to subnet.
6) They only locked down the console, taskbar, file menus in explorer, removed the desktop, and almost everything else after I managed to install Counter-Strike on 10 computers, started the 'net send'ing craze, 'net send'ed to a whole domain, etc.
7) The school intranet website has some pages with 'Example #4 for file-uploading in ASP' on them. Seems to be a copy/paste/edit job to me.
8) Allowing -everyone- to access the academic details of a student by just using their student ID, which was easily found via GroupWise, until they realised and sorta locked it off until I came along, viewed the source and created a HTML that had a form with a text box named 'student_id' and it actually worked. It went around, some people got caught but I was never caught. Good ol' friends, eh?
Unfortuantly, they haven't bribed me with anything yet. Cheap bastards, they gotta have at least 20 old boxes sitting at the back.
You do know Tachikomas are inherently evil, right? Behind those cute voices and blue shell, they are plotting for world domination! Since they -are- AI tanks...
For those who don't know, Tachikomas are from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Fuchikomas are from the original movie/game.
And it's a great year for Ghost in the Shell fans, with a new movie, a game, and.... MORE GHOST IN THE SHELL! Season 2 being shown on pay-tv in Japan.
Slashdot Mirror
About the site that contained the excercises for penis enlargement... how do they research the techniques? Does the R&D division just play with their penises all day long?
Wouldn't that be interesting? Get paid to jack off all day...
Well, since I've never personally watched any of those I listed above (seen people talk about it), it's sorta hard to believe (to Westerners) that it's possible to get a story out of most hentai games. It's like... porn that can have the porn stripped out of it and made into a normal story. I can't see anyone making a PG-rated movie out of Debbie Does Dallas anytime soon ;)
Some non-hentai anime series that are based off hgames include Kanon, To Heart, Yumeria, Comic Party, Popotan, Green Green, KGNE, Happy Lesson, Tsukihime and Da Capo.
I'm only following Yumeria at the moment, and I can only tell you most of the action is based in a dream world, where all the female characters are dressed in skimpy outfits and undergo one of those Sailor Moon-style transformation (I think, anyway. Never watched SM in my whole life). Bounce is exaggerated a bit, but there is no actual 'H' scenes. Yet.
Few of the more deep hgames that I've played will most likely have to include Dividead, for it's excellent plot, great use of sound, and of course, the excellent graphics ;)
One of the first things you must do with Dividead, is play it at night, after you send the kids to bed, with the lights off, your speakers turned all the way up...
Another good hgame is Private Nurse, for it's plot and voice acting, along with it's excellent music. A version has been released for PS2 that removes the 'H' factor from the game (Yes! It's still playable without the adult scenes)
Both have been translated to English, hence the reason that I've played them.
Ah, yes. I forgot about that rule. Sorry.
So has anyone actually figured out the total possible game combinations?
You realise that number is absolutely puny compared to Go?
7 58933986236005891626399446797707097420467137712625 30248956372964427814806611364222697658052744235366 07216617594180996820205758206078300865047460451496 71279695411300948553716685088048372686299464420447 83716355632768205849612093612903206606491136072744 05859807802611091046588995611364822335164659068180 23960517953048171586213593050675848790270895396181 75910922986480450845192545768285400487510964024764 65994480801
;p
Go is played on the intersections of 19x19 lines. A game starts off with no stones on the board, and black plays first. Black can place a stone wherever he wants, and so can white except in some circumstances.
Using my rather limited maths skills, let's calculate the possibilites of the first ten moves (not counting possible captures).
(19 ^ 2) * (19^2 - 1) * (19 ^ 2 - 2) * (19 ^ 2 - 3) * (19 ^ 2 - 4) * (19 ^ 2 - 5) * (19 ^ 2 - 6) * (19 ^ 2 - 7) * (19 ^ 2 - 8) * (19 ^ 2 - 9)
33147774514824216526540800 (done in bc)
That's the first ten moves. So, let's just imagine a match, with half the board filled and no captures are made. To make it simple, I'm just going to leave out the n-1 thing.
(19 ^ 2) ^ ((19 ^ 2) / 2)
2245413570374148024731298658397014793717866229807
Of course, Go games could go on for infinity. The best Go programs are at the level of a 10-kyu player, which is only intermediate. Therefore, I reckon Go is a pretty damn intricate game
Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of "the Farewell dossier": how a C.I.A. campaign of computer sabotage resulting in a huge explosion in Siberia - all engineered by a mild-mannered economist named Gus Weiss - helped us win the cold war.
Weiss worked down the hall from me in the Nixon administration. In early 1974, he wrote a report on Soviet advances in technology through purchasing and copying that led the beleaguered president - detente notwithstanding - to place restrictions on the export of computers and software to the U.S.S.R.
Seven years later, we learned how the K.G.B. responded. I was writing a series of hard-line columns denouncing the financial backing being given Moscow by Germany and Britain for a major natural gas pipeline from Siberia to Europe. That project would give control of European energy supplies to the Communists, as well as generate $8 billion a year to support Soviet computer and satellite research.
President Francois Mitterrand of France also opposed the gas pipeline. He took President Reagan aside at a conference in Ottawa on July 19, 1981, to reveal that France had recruited a key K.G.B. officer in Moscow Center.
Col. Vladimir Vetrov provided what French intelligence called the Farewell dossier. It contained documents from the K.G.B. Technology Directorate showing how the Soviets were systematically stealing - or secretly buying through third parties - the radar, machine tools and semiconductors to keep the Russians nearly competitive with U.S. military-industrial strength through the 70's. In effect, the U.S. was in an arms race with itself.
Reagan passed this on to William J. Casey, his director of central intelligence, now remembered only for the Iran-contra fiasco. Casey called in Weiss, then working with Thomas C. Reed on the staff of the National Security Council. After studying the list of hundreds of Soviet agents and purchasers (including one cosmonaut) assigned to this penetration in the U.S. and Japan, Weiss counseled against deportation.
Instead, according to Reed - a former Air Force secretary whose fascinating cold war book, "At the Abyss," will be published by Random House next month - Weiss said: "Why not help the Soviets with their shopping? Now that we know what they want, we can help them get it." The catch: computer chips would be designed to pass Soviet quality tests and then to fail in operation.
In our complex disinformation scheme, deliberately flawed designs for stealth technology and space defense sent Russian scientists down paths that wasted time and money.
The technology topping the Soviets' wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their overt purchase order, the K.G.B. sent a covert agent into a Canadian company to steal the software; tipped off by Farewell, we added what geeks call a "Trojan Horse" to the pirated product.
"The pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed, "to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space."
Our Norad monitors feared a nuclear detonation, but satellites that would have picked up its electromagnetic pulse were silent. That mystified many in the White House, but "Gus Weiss came down the hall to tell his fellow NSC staffers not to worry. It took him another twenty years to tell me why."
Farewell stayed secret because the blast in June 1982, estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness, with no casualties known. Nor was the red-faced K.G.B. about to complain publicly about being tricked by bogus technology. But all the software it had stolen for years was suddenly suspect, which stopped or delayed the work of thous
I believe Google Calculator is one of the more useful obscured features of Google.
:)
You can enter anything maths (like 2(5 * 30) ^ 2 or whatever), conversions (20 feet to in, etc), has constants predefined (pi, e, speed of light, mach, etc), and even does binary, hexidecimal, octal, and roman numerals (convert 1354 to binary, convert 0b11001 to roman), and more.
Has to be one of the most useful tools ever
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The site's timing out for me. Anyone have a mirror up or the text of the article?
Why not go 110% and whistle into the phone line? I mean, as long as your brain doesn't run Windows... you should be fine :)
...is a virus that adds an entry in every computer's hosts file that points www.sco.com to microsoft.com ;p
In fact, you can sign up for SCO's Expulsion and Termination Intiative at Home program simply by clicking here. Remember, the more times you click it, the higher your score will be!
;p
I hope someone comes up with a better acronym
Disclaimer: I'm a happy Gentoo user myself ;p
;)
Wonder how long it takes to compile X on a PDA
Although it would work fine with an existing distcc cluster. Now, imagine a beowulf cluster of PDAs compiling Gentoo!
Uh... I'm sure lots of mp3 players have digital FM tuners... iRiver players do, and my MSI Megastick 256 does too, and it can record straight from FM.
"A large gathering of people have gathered to protest outside Slashdot HQ after the website linked to a test page hosted on the new wireless blimp. Within seconds, millions of geeks accessed it, crashing the blimp's navigational system, engine systems, and of course the web server itself. The blimp just missed the Pentagon by a mile or so, but people already have started to call Slashdot 'a bunch of geeky terrorists'."
... then you already have a clone of Repton. GNOME Stones is very similar to Repton, if I RFTA correctly. Maze, diamonds, stones... same concept.
So what would happen if one tried to (D)DOS SCO? Would it fry them into oblivion so they can go to Hell to sue Satan for using the letter "S"?
DISCLAIMER: not affliated with Studio ADTRW in any way.
..of the ugly concept art, I'm pleased to announce that Girlfriend of Steel 2 is being scanslated by Studio ADTRW. Some of you hardcore NGE fanboys would have heard of the Girlfriend of Steel, or even played the game, where you play through visual-novel-like game set in the middle of the original NGE timeline, where a new girl joins the fray, named Mana. Yes, it's romance, but wait! There's more!
Girlfriend of Steel 2 is a manga that is based off the short alternate-universe clip at the end of episode 26, where everybody is happy, no Angels around to destroy the place, and Shinji looks at Rei's panties. Yes, the last bit is true, and Misato's their teacher, Kaoru makes a comeback (and retains his homosexual tendancies) but there's no sign of Kaji yet. And Gendo's still a bastard, and still runs NERV... But the manga has done a pretty good job of it so far. Only 3 chapters have been released so far so get it quick and use the torrents!
Dammit! I only liked Eva because Misato had insanely large breasts! :P
:o. And is it just me or does 'Ray' sound like a guy's name?
Anyway, jokes aside, I have a bad feeling what this is gonna turn out to be. Changing the names, changing the age, this is gonna suck. And Rei was actually sorta-unique because her hair was nice light blue, and I know many fans like her cause of that. And from this link, it seems that they will only focus on the first couple of series. That means a sequel could be possible, maybe more. Why dumb it down? One of the reasons the Matrix was interesting because it made you THINK! I agree with the characters being ugly, but I'm not set my mind in stone until I've seen the movie.
They better make Rei/Ray hot or a lot of fans will riot
Of course, the guilty pleasures of videogaming would have to include playing those adult games all day.
Even worse, a picture of their beloved pet...
I have found that my school's IT staff are just don't know anything about computers in general. They feel more secure spending money on expensive solutions but don't know how to use them, and when things go run, start running around the room in circles like a headless chicken.
Eight examples:
1) When I was down at the IT department not too long ago, I found most of them hunt and pecking. Not a good sign, I assure you.
2) Related to the first example, I was down there to help them install Apache, PHP and gVIM because they didn't know how to do it. Not that hard for me, but maybe to some people who have to hunt and peck.
3) The girl I was helping (she looked like an intern or something, maybe that explains it) gave me read/write access on one of the directories on the server's PUBLIC drives so I can make changes if needed without bothering her.
4) I have gotten 40 people in detention for playing games copied from the folder. They were caught in one day.
5) The whole network lags to shit whenever a class logs on. They don't seem to know how to subnet.
6) They only locked down the console, taskbar, file menus in explorer, removed the desktop, and almost everything else after I managed to install Counter-Strike on 10 computers, started the 'net send'ing craze, 'net send'ed to a whole domain, etc.
7) The school intranet website has some pages with 'Example #4 for file-uploading in ASP' on them. Seems to be a copy/paste/edit job to me.
8) Allowing -everyone- to access the academic details of a student by just using their student ID, which was easily found via GroupWise, until they realised and sorta locked it off until I came along, viewed the source and created a HTML that had a form with a text box named 'student_id' and it actually worked. It went around, some people got caught but I was never caught. Good ol' friends, eh?
Unfortuantly, they haven't bribed me with anything yet. Cheap bastards, they gotta have at least 20 old boxes sitting at the back.
You do know Tachikomas are inherently evil, right? Behind those cute voices and blue shell, they are plotting for world domination! Since they -are- AI tanks...
For those who don't know, Tachikomas are from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Fuchikomas are from the original movie/game.
And it's a great year for Ghost in the Shell fans, with a new movie, a game, and.... MORE GHOST IN THE SHELL! Season 2 being shown on pay-tv in Japan.