Sometimes I dream I live in a world where Space Quest 7 was never cancelled.
I'm hoping the new Monkey Island titles and the relaunch of the original games over XBox Live will reinvigorate the adventure game genre. Unfortunately most people who've bought The Secret of Monkey Island: SE are people who like me, played them many, many years ago, and wanted to relieve them one more time.
"Secondly, if I'm not mistaken, it's a federal crime to open mail addressed to someone who isn't you. Would that restriction apply to this for the company that opens and converts the mail? Also, I would think that once the mail is in electronic form, it loses that protection and it's not illegal for anyone else to open and read it in the event it's misdirectered to someone else."
This was my first concern when I saw this story. I mean for starters, you've got a bunch of random people opening your mail and scanning it every day. I have to admit this is a really cool idea, but the execution if it really doesn't leave me personally with a lot of confidence in it.
There's probably a LOT of legal stuff tied up in this, giving people permission to open your mail for you. And yeah, in amongst all that there's probably going to be some sort of clause that permits them to use information in your personal correspondence.
Not that I assume this company is being started by a pack of deviants that just want to read everyone's mail and steal their secrets. I'm sure they wouldn't find my mobile phone bill or quarterly taekwondo magazine particularly interesting.
But that's not exactly the point.
If this new pump requires 75W or more, then you're unlikely to win in the long run - you'll just need a bigger PSU (and bigger, noisier fan in it) to get the job done.
I imagine this is why they're not going to be a cost effective replacement for a fan for another five years.
Are methane and natural gas the same things? I was under the impression they aren't because methane has a smell, and natural gas doesn't (at least until the gas companies add it themselves).
Now there's one thing I never fully understood. Isn't natural gas being depleted just the same as 'fossil fuels'?
I can only assume it's more readily available because it's a hell of a lot cheaper, but it's going to run out one day, surely. Should we be basing 'alternative fuel solutions' on a temporary source (even if temporary is a highly relative term).
Korea seems to be massive for a lot of things internet related, and faster adapting too, so it's no shock that they'd test it there.
For example, you take a look at the highest trafficked sites. Not surprisingly, the top sites are yahoo and MSN... but somewhere around #3 you get a Korean site and from there on down you get a pretty solid representation between sites that are primarily American, Korean and Japanese.
And then some jerk can introduce a new internet fad for everyone to complain about until it becomes standard. To be honest, I can still rmemeber when I refused to install an IM program because I didn't see the use for it.
Of course I still consider ICQ and MSN to be the enemy of actual communication. We have all these additional means with which to tell other people what we're thinking, how we feel, what we're doing. If you have a webcam you can let them watch you do it as well (and depending on your personal dignity - make money from it).
All this and we're left with so little to actually talk about. There are only so many days in a row you can see someone come online and ask them how they're oding before one of you goes insane.
On the upside; ever since my friends all got blogs, they've stopped sending me chain emails from 1791 that will give me good luck if I forward them to 15 other people within sixty seconds.
You're absolutely correct there. A while back NASA released photographs of 'the face' and essentially showed that this 'structure' does not resemble a face. Some combination of a light trick and other various factors I admittedly can't recall at this moment.
Of course there's always the chance that these photographs are doctored, but I doubt that it would have taken NASA this long to initiate some sort of coverup concerning the martians.
(Besides, allowing people to believe in things that seem outright ludicrous to others does more than any organised conspiracy could accomplish).
Maybe I'm overly cynical about it. The face on Mars is a freaky photo if you take it at... well... face value, but not necessarily signifigant.
Of course I'm sure everyone would like to believe in a link between martian pyramids and Giza, because that's still one of our big unsolved mysteries with results based only on hypothesis' (unless something major slipped completely by my geek radar).
It could happen, but won't. Maybe that's a big call to make - things are advancing at an exponential rate and all that... who can really say what will or won't be done in 20 years time?
But I don't see it happening. For one thing it would be too vulnerable a target. We'd need to be pretty seriously close to some sort of worldwide peace.
Ah well.
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Sometimes I dream I live in a world where Space Quest 7 was never cancelled. I'm hoping the new Monkey Island titles and the relaunch of the original games over XBox Live will reinvigorate the adventure game genre. Unfortunately most people who've bought The Secret of Monkey Island: SE are people who like me, played them many, many years ago, and wanted to relieve them one more time.
Probably not. I'm sure there is probably some loophole regarding google being primarily a search engine and gmail being search based.
They saved the universe! That's a plot!
"Secondly, if I'm not mistaken, it's a federal crime to open mail addressed to someone who isn't you. Would that restriction apply to this for the company that opens and converts the mail? Also, I would think that once the mail is in electronic form, it loses that protection and it's not illegal for anyone else to open and read it in the event it's misdirectered to someone else." This was my first concern when I saw this story. I mean for starters, you've got a bunch of random people opening your mail and scanning it every day. I have to admit this is a really cool idea, but the execution if it really doesn't leave me personally with a lot of confidence in it. There's probably a LOT of legal stuff tied up in this, giving people permission to open your mail for you. And yeah, in amongst all that there's probably going to be some sort of clause that permits them to use information in your personal correspondence. Not that I assume this company is being started by a pack of deviants that just want to read everyone's mail and steal their secrets. I'm sure they wouldn't find my mobile phone bill or quarterly taekwondo magazine particularly interesting. But that's not exactly the point.
If this new pump requires 75W or more, then you're unlikely to win in the long run - you'll just need a bigger PSU (and bigger, noisier fan in it) to get the job done. I imagine this is why they're not going to be a cost effective replacement for a fan for another five years.
Are methane and natural gas the same things? I was under the impression they aren't because methane has a smell, and natural gas doesn't (at least until the gas companies add it themselves).
It almost makes having made the typo worth it.
Now there's one thing I never fully understood. Isn't natural gas being depleted just the same as 'fossil fuels'? I can only assume it's more readily available because it's a hell of a lot cheaper, but it's going to run out one day, surely. Should we be basing 'alternative fuel solutions' on a temporary source (even if temporary is a highly relative term).
I'm not sure if it's possible to patent something after it's become a generic term.
For example, you take a look at the highest trafficked sites. Not surprisingly, the top sites are yahoo and MSN... but somewhere around #3 you get a Korean site and from there on down you get a pretty solid representation between sites that are primarily American, Korean and Japanese.
Well actually, I deleted the chain letters and visited their houses with a sack of doorknobs.
And then some jerk can introduce a new internet fad for everyone to complain about until it becomes standard. To be honest, I can still rmemeber when I refused to install an IM program because I didn't see the use for it. Of course I still consider ICQ and MSN to be the enemy of actual communication. We have all these additional means with which to tell other people what we're thinking, how we feel, what we're doing. If you have a webcam you can let them watch you do it as well (and depending on your personal dignity - make money from it). All this and we're left with so little to actually talk about. There are only so many days in a row you can see someone come online and ask them how they're oding before one of you goes insane.
They wouldn't stay friends very long.
That's possibly one of the dumbest things I've heard outside of a dragonball z forum.
I'd rather read blogs about sandwiches than pages of 16 year old goth wannabes bitching about not getting laid. But that's just me.
There might be a downside I don't see.
Of course there's always the chance that these photographs are doctored, but I doubt that it would have taken NASA this long to initiate some sort of coverup concerning the martians.
(Besides, allowing people to believe in things that seem outright ludicrous to others does more than any organised conspiracy could accomplish).
Maybe I'm overly cynical about it. The face on Mars is a freaky photo if you take it at... well... face value, but not necessarily signifigant.
Of course I'm sure everyone would like to believe in a link between martian pyramids and Giza, because that's still one of our big unsolved mysteries with results based only on hypothesis' (unless something major slipped completely by my geek radar).
Nicely put.
It could happen, but won't. Maybe that's a big call to make - things are advancing at an exponential rate and all that... who can really say what will or won't be done in 20 years time? But I don't see it happening. For one thing it would be too vulnerable a target. We'd need to be pretty seriously close to some sort of worldwide peace. Ah well.