We'll know if the USA actually went to the moon or if that was just a hoax, unless this is a hoax as well.
No hoax, but they'll find that the moon has since been colonized by the McDonalds/Starbucks joint project which reached the moon in 99 and have set up a variety of lunar franchises for mystery-meat and moccachino craving space-travellers.
My God, that this is terrible looking. I can barely let blackberrys' pass as cell phones, but that thing doesnt even look like a PDA, it looks like neither.
Bear in mind this is from the company which brought us the N-Gage, a device which has been described as looking like a taco and requires you to remove the battery to change game. Nokia make fine phones but something seems to have gone wonky of late with their work in other areas.
My god, I think I just had a nerdgasm. I've been waiting to hear this for years.:)
We have been hearing this for years. There've been stories of a Dr Who revival cropping up every few months or so. There have been rumours about Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and others appearing in a new movie/series etc, and nothing has ever come of it. Don't count your chickens till they've hit the small screen. Or something.
Basically, they say Neo is trapped in a world between the real world and the Matrix. And the whole damn skidoo comes down to him and Agent Smith.
So basically, just like the first film? No doubt this'll get modded as troll/flamebait, but I didn't see the need for sequels at all. The Matrix was a good film, with an open ending that I thought suited the nature of the film perfectly, and left what happens next to the watchers imagination. The sequels just seemed like sequels for sequels sake and I feel actually detract from the imagination and impact of the first film. Not least because they somehow had to bring Neo down from being all powerful at the end of Matrix 1 which casts doubt that the directors/writers intended the series to be a trilogy in the first place.
If this page is to believed, that is. Granted, this cartridge won't play GBA games over wifi but seems fairly innovative, turning your GBA into a wireless PDA.
This story just smells like a hoax. Not only because it is so absurd, but because the whole 'Starving Artist' thing has been done before. The Onion had a storyKid Rock Starves To Death: MP3 Piracy Blamed
Of course, stranger things have happened, like Coke and Pepsi sponsoring schools. What, I wonder, would the teachers make of it if a student piped up and said they were going to give the album away for free anyway? Would they be carted off to RIAA-retraining camp?
Oh great, a new way for Americans to get fat. Kill your TV and read a book or go exercise for god sake.
In the light of someone recently suing McDonalds because their food was bad for him, how long before we see a class action suit of obese people suing sofa manufacturers for making their sofas too comfy to be bothered getting up from?
Especially for couch potatoes if their weight matches the combined weight of their friends. Imagine sitting down to be greeted with 'Hello, Phil, Dave and Sandra.'
Even scarier, we're several thousand years past due on the next ice age.
Would that be scarier or less scary than the giant asteroid due to hit us in space year whatever, or the many other apocalypses predicted and given space on Slashdot?
in voice recognition. Some mobiles recognize certain spoken words - as evidenced by the amusing sight of a colleague yelling 'home!' into his phone when trying to ring his wife. But what if one day we could have a phone that could actually recognize what people say and translate it into text? And then perhaps translate the text back into synthesised speech at the other end. Some day, maybe this could be done real time so that people could use these 'mobiles' to communicate instantaneously. Er.. hang on a minute...
Obvious Simpsons joke aside, this seems like a pipe dream. The ability to have this kind of control over media no doubt sends the RIAA et al into spasms of joy, but there's a catch. Surely all you need to play downloaded music, either legitimately owned or copied anywhere is an MP3 player and a decent set of speakers? Given the choice of being able to play carefully controlled MP3s through my fridge - or whatever they're going to install this system onto - or just plug in an mp3 player and go, the latter gets my vote any day.
Cynical this may be, but I can't see Star Wars: Galaxies ever being truly ready. After all, even with vehicles, it's still just a game given a Star Wars makeover. That may have worked for Knights of The Old Republic, because while it's quite open in form the plot can still be directed. But Everquest is pretty much a sprawling formless game and just throwing lightsabres etc intot he minute doesn't make it a compelling game. Or one that actually does the Star Wars license any justice (though that hasn't stopped Lucasarts in the past).
So, a bunch of lawyers get obscenely rich and 2 years from now we all get a $5.00 coupon toward the purchase of a new disk.
Or more likely, the plaintiffs get a nice flash cheque for one hundred billion dollars, which is whipped away by an RIAA lawyer before they can get outside of the court.
This isn't the first time the electronics industry has relabelled capacity for its own benefits. Megadrive cartridges used to be sometimes have blurb saying they were '4 meg' or whatever. In fact, they weren't referring to megabytes, but megabits, a much smaller measure of capacity. Maybe after this lawsuit the defendants will be rifling through their old game collection and decide to take out a retro-active suit against Sega.
It's a real shame there are no prison terms for spammers in the UK. I had this mental image of a gangly viagra and porn selling spammer explaining to his two hundred and fifty pound drooling bunk-mate just what he's in for.
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Mind you, they did apparently have some stiff competition from InterDump Inc, the company responsible for the festivals internet-enabled portaloos.
Mind you, Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms.
No hoax, but they'll find that the moon has since been colonized by the McDonalds/Starbucks joint project which reached the moon in 99 and have set up a variety of lunar franchises for mystery-meat and moccachino craving space-travellers.
... 'triffid masters'
Bear in mind this is from the company which brought us the N-Gage, a device which has been described as looking like a taco and requires you to remove the battery to change game. Nokia make fine phones but something seems to have gone wonky of late with their work in other areas.
We have been hearing this for years. There've been stories of a Dr Who revival cropping up every few months or so. There have been rumours about Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman and others appearing in a new movie/series etc, and nothing has ever come of it. Don't count your chickens till they've hit the small screen. Or something.
So basically, just like the first film? No doubt this'll get modded as troll/flamebait, but I didn't see the need for sequels at all. The Matrix was a good film, with an open ending that I thought suited the nature of the film perfectly, and left what happens next to the watchers imagination. The sequels just seemed like sequels for sequels sake and I feel actually detract from the imagination and impact of the first film. Not least because they somehow had to bring Neo down from being all powerful at the end of Matrix 1 which casts doubt that the directors/writers intended the series to be a trilogy in the first place.
If this page is to believed, that is. Granted, this cartridge won't play GBA games over wifi but seems fairly innovative, turning your GBA into a wireless PDA.
A troll? Come on, how can anyone think this is anything other than pure classic tongue-in-cheek comedy?
Of course, stranger things have happened, like Coke and Pepsi sponsoring schools. What, I wonder, would the teachers make of it if a student piped up and said they were going to give the album away for free anyway? Would they be carted off to RIAA-retraining camp?
Yeah, but the sheer amount of cholesterol and fat floating about in the blood would mean you'd need to spread it with a pie server.
1. In Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of our Sofa Overlords welcome *you*. 2. ???? 3. Profit.
In the light of someone recently suing McDonalds because their food was bad for him, how long before we see a class action suit of obese people suing sofa manufacturers for making their sofas too comfy to be bothered getting up from?
Especially for couch potatoes if their weight matches the combined weight of their friends. Imagine sitting down to be greeted with 'Hello, Phil, Dave and Sandra.'
... am looking forward to 'Lindows Refund Day'
And many x-boxen going by the popularity of mod chips.
Main Entry: backup
1 a : one that serves as a substitute or support b : musical accompaniment
2 : an accumulation caused by a stoppage in the flow
3 : the act or an instance of backing up a computer's hard disk
4 : the term for an illegal unlicensed copy of an electronic medium used by warez kiddies in a sad attempt to avoid using the word 'piracy'.
Would that be scarier or less scary than the giant asteroid due to hit us in space year whatever, or the many other apocalypses predicted and given space on Slashdot?
Well, that's where the nano-rednecks come in.
in voice recognition. Some mobiles recognize certain spoken words - as evidenced by the amusing sight of a colleague yelling 'home!' into his phone when trying to ring his wife. But what if one day we could have a phone that could actually recognize what people say and translate it into text? And then perhaps translate the text back into synthesised speech at the other end. Some day, maybe this could be done real time so that people could use these 'mobiles' to communicate instantaneously. Er.. hang on a minute...
Obvious Simpsons joke aside, this seems like a pipe dream. The ability to have this kind of control over media no doubt sends the RIAA et al into spasms of joy, but there's a catch. Surely all you need to play downloaded music, either legitimately owned or copied anywhere is an MP3 player and a decent set of speakers? Given the choice of being able to play carefully controlled MP3s through my fridge - or whatever they're going to install this system onto - or just plug in an mp3 player and go, the latter gets my vote any day.
Cynical this may be, but I can't see Star Wars: Galaxies ever being truly ready. After all, even with vehicles, it's still just a game given a Star Wars makeover. That may have worked for Knights of The Old Republic, because while it's quite open in form the plot can still be directed. But Everquest is pretty much a sprawling formless game and just throwing lightsabres etc intot he minute doesn't make it a compelling game. Or one that actually does the Star Wars license any justice (though that hasn't stopped Lucasarts in the past).
Or more likely, the plaintiffs get a nice flash cheque for one hundred billion dollars, which is whipped away by an RIAA lawyer before they can get outside of the court.
This isn't the first time the electronics industry has relabelled capacity for its own benefits. Megadrive cartridges used to be sometimes have blurb saying they were '4 meg' or whatever. In fact, they weren't referring to megabytes, but megabits, a much smaller measure of capacity. Maybe after this lawsuit the defendants will be rifling through their old game collection and decide to take out a retro-active suit against Sega.
It's a real shame there are no prison terms for spammers in the UK. I had this mental image of a gangly viagra and porn selling spammer explaining to his two hundred and fifty pound drooling bunk-mate just what he's in for.