Never even heard of this patent issue. I followed all the links and nothing really told me why I shouldn't like this thingamajig they're doing.
So....tell me...what are people protesting against?
Do the unsubscribe buttons on spams actually take you off mailing lists? First time I saw one (back in the day) I immediately thought they would spam you more, and therefore have never clicked one...
I agree it just needs a good learning curve. Or just an optional training program. Half life's was especially well done. Special extra's should be introduced after basics are mastered though.
The whole human battery thing is stupid! All humans do is convert food to energy by burning it. The thing is, they do it inefficiently-producing much heat, and they also need vitamins etc. which have no energy value. Any machine could convert energy better than a human. Why not just burn whatever they feed the human and use it to move a turbine?
I think it would be quite easily possible to do this for a good coder ie. Find a vulnerability for all OS's. Then it just keeps proliferating until a certain date, (say 6 months later) then just flashes the bios or performs fdisk.
For no reason I love the idea of creating a nice worm. I thought that in THIS situation it would scan for say three minutes, and if it found an open port, upload itself to that computer. If after 3 minutes none were found it deletes itself. If it finds one it deletes itself. That way eventually if every computer doesn't have this vulnerability it will become extinct. Whereas the current one keeps going on and on.
Also it would tell the user what it's doing at the time. Darn fine idea I say.
Y2K bug was all a marketing scandal. Informed people knew well and good that nothing would happen. Bogus companies started selling things that millenium proof cars, which, dare I say have no Idea of the date, let alone know when to malfunction. A free floppy in the mail assured me my computer had the bug and told me to buy their product. I should have uncovered them because I'm sure their program diagnoses computers as sick every time, but I couldn't be bothered
It rules because it has an OS. So you can do other stuff as well as play games. And it is upgraded. And it can emulate console games (although this is dubiously legal, and there aren't emulators for all consoles right?).
Still if you're rich (or too poor to buy pc, or too dumb to use one[which is their worst point, most people don't have the time and/or logic to learn]) my second option would be an x box.
Then one could buy halo 2 when it comes out.
BTW. A good game doesn't need good graphics. Take tetris, or half life. As a rule of thumb though, a game with good graphics means the devs put lotsa effort into it. There are exceptions. Thank you rof reading my off topic thought!
If we used the prefix ped in pedophile literally it would mean "foot lover" but it seems that is not the case. So technophile could mean anything at all:)
A long time ago I read an article somewhere saying that America may pass a law that says,
If any illegal internet traffic that passes through American servers, they have a right to charge people from other countries, for doing whatever etc.
If that law was passed (i dunno) then they could charge any spammer in the whole world. They could abuse this law, but I doubt it. They do abuse some laws...minors can't drink beer:)
the new Nvidia Crapx 5300 lets you use hardware rendering. And it does it all 30-50x slower than software!
Buy now from www.nvidia.com/crapx
Only $2 and a cookie.
Late last night in the wee hours of the morning, a fire broke out in a suburban home. Resident nerd Johnny was able to alert the other people in the house because he was up late having a foursome with three models. This proves that nerds should more often have sex with models.
The government, backed by the fire department is implementing a program to keep models having sex with nerds. The goal of the scheme is to have a foursome in every household every night.
More on this in tomorrows news. Right now I have to be getting home to check for fires. This was reporter Seedy McPimp. Thank you and goodnight.
This was exactly what I thought. It was just POOR. I mean, I really had trouble going into my services and disabling the "shut down" option. NOT.
In fact if they didn't include this function no one would notice they had it, leaving it to carry out the "attack microsoft" part of the program. That could have been fun.
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I think Tyson is a little different because he had one* too many blows to the head.
*By one I mean several hundred**
**The reverse is applicable to all gag products
A good story line is a must for a good computer game (see Final Fantasy)
A good story line does not always mean a good game (see Enter The Matrix)
Never even heard of this patent issue. I followed all the links and nothing really told me why I shouldn't like this thingamajig they're doing. So....tell me...what are people protesting against?
Do the unsubscribe buttons on spams actually take you off mailing lists? First time I saw one (back in the day) I immediately thought they would spam you more, and therefore have never clicked one...
Coincidentally, elephants like peanuts.
I agree it just needs a good learning curve. Or just an optional training program. Half life's was especially well done. Special extra's should be introduced after basics are mastered though.
In the words of taco-man
"I haven't bought a cd since 1999. Not because I download songs, but quite frankly RIAA, your music sucks donkey balls.
The whole human battery thing is stupid! All humans do is convert food to energy by burning it. The thing is, they do it inefficiently-producing much heat, and they also need vitamins etc. which have no energy value. Any machine could convert energy better than a human. Why not just burn whatever they feed the human and use it to move a turbine?
I got those (dozen or so) emails because I use the Messanger bundled with winXP. So I updated
What kind of advertisement will I be swimming in soon? I haven't seen any so far...
Movie industry:
"Darn! Now we actually have to make good movies! What a bummer.
I think it would be quite easily possible to do this for a good coder ie.
Find a vulnerability for all OS's.
Then it just keeps proliferating until a certain date, (say 6 months later) then just flashes the bios or performs fdisk.
For no reason I love the idea of creating a nice worm. I thought that in THIS situation it would scan for say three minutes, and if it found an open port, upload itself to that computer. If after 3 minutes none were found it deletes itself. If it finds one it deletes itself. That way eventually if every computer doesn't have this vulnerability it will become extinct. Whereas the current one keeps going on and on.
Also it would tell the user what it's doing at the time. Darn fine idea I say.
Y2K bug was all a marketing scandal. Informed people knew well and good that nothing would happen. Bogus companies started selling things that millenium proof cars, which, dare I say have no Idea of the date, let alone know when to malfunction. A free floppy in the mail assured me my computer had the bug and told me to buy their product. I should have uncovered them because I'm sure their program diagnoses computers as sick every time, but I couldn't be bothered
Rant over.
LOL die hard patriots will at most be staring at their mouse until they can get over their forein built hardware.
It rules because it has an OS. So you can do other stuff as well as play games. And it is upgraded. And it can emulate console games (although this is dubiously legal, and there aren't emulators for all consoles right?).
Still if you're rich (or too poor to buy pc, or too dumb to use one[which is their worst point, most people don't have the time and/or logic to learn]) my second option would be an x box.
Then one could buy halo 2 when it comes out.
BTW. A good game doesn't need good graphics. Take tetris, or half life. As a rule of thumb though, a game with good graphics means the devs put lotsa effort into it. There are exceptions.
Thank you rof reading my off topic thought!
I can't believe it's another hero with amnesia. That's the most overdone story ever. It still could be a good book.
If we used the prefix ped in pedophile literally it would mean "foot lover" but it seems that is not the case. So technophile could mean anything at all :)
A long time ago I read an article somewhere saying that America may pass a law that says,
:)
If any illegal internet traffic that passes through American servers, they have a right to charge people from other countries, for doing whatever etc.
If that law was passed (i dunno) then they could charge any spammer in the whole world. They could abuse this law, but I doubt it. They do abuse some laws...minors can't drink beer
Maybe they should go even further and make string puppets. Then they could videotape them!
Apple is getting really stupid.
Slick computer! Sexy design! Looks good with your wall! New upgradable--512 megs of sexiness!
Us PC users with "industry standard" hardware can case mod a 486 if we need a nice looking piece of junk*.
None of this slick look computing. Personally, I spend my gaming time looking at the smooth framerates(on my cheap pc).
*Don't bother flaming me. I know new apples are better than 486's (although a lot more expensive). And finally - Windows XP has never crashed..yet!
Actually. No. Just no. He's right. You're wrong. End of story. Goodbye.
the new Nvidia Crapx 5300 lets you use hardware rendering. And it does it all 30-50x slower than software! Buy now from www.nvidia.com/crapx Only $2 and a cookie.
Late last night in the wee hours of the morning, a fire broke out in a suburban home. Resident nerd Johnny was able to alert the other people in the house because he was up late having a foursome with three models. This proves that nerds should more often have sex with models. The government, backed by the fire department is implementing a program to keep models having sex with nerds. The goal of the scheme is to have a foursome in every household every night. More on this in tomorrows news. Right now I have to be getting home to check for fires. This was reporter Seedy McPimp. Thank you and goodnight.
LMAO. Someone would need a jet engine for a cpu if it was regularly at 121 degrees C :)
This was exactly what I thought. It was just POOR. I mean, I really had trouble going into my services and disabling the "shut down" option. NOT.
In fact if they didn't include this function no one would notice they had it, leaving it to carry out the "attack microsoft" part of the program. That could have been fun.