Lessie , i am bully and a son of bitch, but my wife loves me even so!
As far as it goes, I have been a pc guy for well over 20 years now. I am 32. I started with a c64. I have been always with a machine. I know some preatty good mmorpgs out there, and lot that suck. I remeber playing some of the BBS doors games. there is a level between geek and nerd. I try not to ever cross it. I can usualy tell when I am geeking out.
I had some room mates in college. BIg D+D fans. They took over my living room on day, and never gave it back. They brough more and more of their friends over. I startedtyo loose it. All I ever heard was D+D talk. I think thats where I got to running from it. I am all for playing pc games, and enjoying it. But my shower is a mere 100 feet away.
Someone should probably set off the sprinkler system! I am guessing thats the only way these guys are gonna get a shower! Just hope the A/C dosent break down!
I was reading all what yu were saying about the sleep issues, however, I think that the real issue is the Alzheimers thing. Anything like that is potentially good. Any company that 'ecourages' frug use as a conditon of employment should be nuked/
It is a *very* tough call. When DIVX came out I remember most of the folks were pointing at the lack of level of encryption. Most folks were saaying that if they had provided a 'better lever of security', somehow pointing the blame at them, now yu have your chance.
You can get your hands dirty and help them in their folley. Very interesting.
As a more personal note, I still can't understand why the blame for breaking htat format lays with them. They didn't force you to sit and crack their code. I mean here in Canada, if I buy the smallest tiniest lock I can find, its still breaking and entering. Im sure that this will be modded to troll, but I am serious. I want to understand.
I can understand the offensive emotion. It gives me the willys. I think that if someone wants to go that far, they could just get a video made themselves. Much more private. Now the interesting (although morbid) would be that there could be an 'art gallery' of peoples lives, uin the sense that you could randomly walk around and peep into someone elses life.
Yes I posted a story when Peter Jennings died. Nothing. Couldnt figgure it out, here was a guy that everyone knew. A quiet influence for news people. Maybe cause he was a Canadian?
I think that there are a few 'stand-out' games from over the years that relied heavily on this. Games such as Max Payne, Hitman 2, Command and Conquer, X-Wing and Tie Fighter, Diablo 2, StarWars NTOR, Im sure that there are more memorable ones that are out there. I know that there was a lot of 'what's behind the next corner', especially with HalfLife, and UNREAL.
I only played Starwars galactic battlegrounds, as my one true fray into MMOPRG, and man did I jump out quick. There was no sense of sticking to any part of the story. If that had maintained waht they had set out for int the beginning they would have done so much better. No real challenge at the higher levels, big worlds with only so much content. Only fun for a while.
A lot of folks feel that because its analog, there is something thats missing. I hate MP3s for the most part, because they are overly-compressed. There is no way that you can tell me that MP3's are CD quality. Its onr thing on itsy bitsy headphones,quite another on a decent sound system.
There are a bunch of guys that are currently using lasers to decode the LP then digitize it. They then take it through some audio cleaning, to get the hiss out. Then they can set it to cd or wahtever. I saw this on telvision, they are currently doing this for the Library of Congress (I believe). They are able to get the sound off the old wax cylanders. I Wish I had a link for this.
Hm The downfall with the whole thing is that can someone honestly tell me that with all the recent privacy foul-ups (missing credit cards), identity theft(coolweb), and Im sure that the list goes on and on. How can you tell me that a company isn't going to sell their servers,and forget to wipe the data? Or someone break in?
why would something like this be linked at all ? If I am allergic to pennicillan, Id be happy to have alocalised chip to say that. Why would it need to go beyond that ? Mediic-Alert Braclets are the same idea.
I agree with the other responder. Its why I jumped back into linux as a home machine. It was become a daily thing. Run 2 hours a day of scans. I was on a win2k box. Ihavent had any such problems since.
If I didnt know any better I think that MS leaves things like that unpatched to force you to upgrade to the latest and greatest.
This is preatty scary tho. I mean if the government does the old embrace and extend thing (Like usual), i wouldnt want to see it. So much for pee-testing.
The idea that it ay or may not cost more at this point in time is kinda irrelavant. If this technolgy was pushed as hard as gas was , we'd be ahead of the curve now.
I was watching a demonstration of hydrogen vehicles here in Canada. They got the power for the conversion process from using a small windmill. It was more or less enough to service a small station on it. I see that as being one of those near-future things.
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Lessie , i am bully and a son of bitch, but my wife loves me even so! As far as it goes, I have been a pc guy for well over 20 years now. I am 32. I started with a c64. I have been always with a machine. I know some preatty good mmorpgs out there, and lot that suck. I remeber playing some of the BBS doors games. there is a level between geek and nerd. I try not to ever cross it. I can usualy tell when I am geeking out. I had some room mates in college. BIg D+D fans. They took over my living room on day, and never gave it back. They brough more and more of their friends over. I startedtyo loose it. All I ever heard was D+D talk. I think thats where I got to running from it. I am all for playing pc games, and enjoying it. But my shower is a mere 100 feet away.
Hahahahahaha
Someone should probably set off the sprinkler system! I am guessing thats the only way these guys are gonna get a shower! Just hope the A/C dosent break down!
I was reading all what yu were saying about the sleep issues, however, I think that the real issue is the Alzheimers thing. Anything like that is potentially good. Any company that 'ecourages' frug use as a conditon of employment should be nuked/
Thats funny! "he felt sorry for me!" hahaha
There ya go. I am excited! For once someone says what Ive always wanted! Its ok for someone to make money, based on the work that they did.
More like GOOBER!
It is a *very* tough call. When DIVX came out I remember most of the folks were pointing at the lack of level of encryption. Most folks were saaying that if they had provided a 'better lever of security', somehow pointing the blame at them, now yu have your chance.
You can get your hands dirty and help them in their folley. Very interesting.
As a more personal note, I still can't understand why the blame for breaking htat format lays with them. They didn't force you to sit and crack their code. I mean here in Canada, if I buy the smallest tiniest lock I can find, its still breaking and entering. Im sure that this will be modded to troll, but I am serious. I want to understand.
too bad im outta mod points
Almost creeping into codgerism. :)
Ya know, this might be a balloon thing.. See if it holds up under the charter or not.
I can understand the offensive emotion. It gives me the willys. I think that if someone wants to go that far, they could just get a video made themselves. Much more private. Now the interesting (although morbid) would be that there could be an 'art gallery' of peoples lives, uin the sense that you could randomly walk around and peep into someone elses life.
See, all we need to do is take an aids-infetected thumb, and shove it up the crocs ass. That'll really piss it off. Then we can do whatever.
This couild be an ad-based thing like MSN.
However I would think that a 'news' site like this would at least give it up for one of their own.
Yes I posted a story when Peter Jennings died. Nothing. Couldnt figgure it out, here was a guy that everyone knew. A quiet influence for news people. Maybe cause he was a Canadian?
I think that there are a few 'stand-out' games from over the years that relied heavily on this. Games such as Max Payne, Hitman 2, Command and Conquer, X-Wing and Tie Fighter, Diablo 2, StarWars NTOR, Im sure that there are more memorable ones that are out there. I know that there was a lot of 'what's behind the next corner', especially with HalfLife, and UNREAL.
I only played Starwars galactic battlegrounds, as my one true fray into MMOPRG, and man did I jump out quick. There was no sense of sticking to any part of the story. If that had maintained waht they had set out for int the beginning they would have done so much better. No real challenge at the higher levels, big worlds with only so much content. Only fun for a while.
I am a member of a union, The trouble is that management has the right to direct its workforce. It might be something of a harrassment case, there.
A lot of folks feel that because its analog, there is something thats missing. I hate MP3s for the most part, because they are overly-compressed. There is no way that you can tell me that MP3's are CD quality. Its onr thing on itsy bitsy headphones,quite another on a decent sound system.
There are a bunch of guys that are currently using lasers to decode the LP then digitize it. They then take it through some audio cleaning, to get the hiss out. Then they can set it to cd or wahtever. I saw this on telvision, they are currently doing this for the Library of Congress (I believe). They are able to get the sound off the old wax cylanders. I Wish I had a link for this.
well, maybe that way they can tell you if a terrorist is sneaking up on you from behind! Knowledge = Prepardness! And knowing is half the battle!
Hm The downfall with the whole thing is that can someone honestly tell me that with all the recent privacy foul-ups (missing credit cards), identity theft(coolweb), and Im sure that the list goes on and on. How can you tell me that a company isn't going to sell their servers,and forget to wipe the data? Or someone break in?
why would something like this be linked at all ? If I am allergic to pennicillan, Id be happy to have alocalised chip to say that. Why would it need to go beyond that ? Mediic-Alert Braclets are the same idea.
I agree with the other responder. Its why I jumped back into linux as a home machine. It was become a daily thing. Run 2 hours a day of scans. I was on a win2k box. Ihavent had any such problems since.
If I didnt know any better I think that MS leaves things like that unpatched to force you to upgrade to the latest and greatest.
>>et him without sin cast the first stone"
This is preatty scary tho. I mean if the government does the old embrace and extend thing (Like usual), i wouldnt want to see it. So much for pee-testing.
The idea that it ay or may not cost more at this point in time is kinda irrelavant. If this technolgy was pushed as hard as gas was , we'd be ahead of the curve now.
I was watching a demonstration of hydrogen vehicles here in Canada. They got the power for the conversion process from using a small windmill. It was more or less enough to service a small station on it. I see that as being one of those near-future things.