Hey, if helium makes your voice really high... would anti-helium make your voice really deep? That'd be cool! You could like sell it or something.
Bet you'd make a lot of money if you could find a large audience primarilly composed of, say, young males plagued with high pitched, nasaly voices. Hmm... now if only I knew of such a place...
Goddamn. The things people do to run Windows...
It makes me glad I use Linux.
Oh come on, lets not be hypocritical here. I seriously doubt anyone can say they've done a fresh install of *distro-of-choice* and not spent some time tweaking things to get their system into a fully usable state.
Everyone does it, and just because one person has to install a firewall and another person has to hunt down drivers doesn't make either person superior to the other. Yeah I know, this is slashdot, where "Windows sux and Linux rulez", but if we're going to be asking serious questions we might as well be giving serious answers.
Myself, I use KPF and AVG, with AdAware on the side. Fortunatly, these three programs don't have much to do, thanks to Firefox and my cheap yet trusty DI-604 router. I'm actually going to be putting together a box for my parents this weekend too, so i've been busy loading up my USB flash drive with some of the aforementioned programs, and other first boot goodies. And if i'm lucky, my parents will turn over custody of their old computer (an aging P3-500) to me, which I hope to turn into my very first Linux box to muck around on. Then i'll get to experience the numerous pains-in-the-ass of both worlds! Should be fun.:)
Whoa guys, hang on here. I was in the beta too, and in my not so humble opinion, E&B SUCKED. Every single aspect of it was little more than a poorly disguised leveling treadmill. Combat was utterly worthless... fly to target, use special ability A B or C, set most powerful weapon to autofire, wait until someone dies. Dogfighting? What's that? Hell, space wasn't even 3D - it was a flat plane with about 15 feet of vertical space before your ship magically leveled off - so you couldn't even manuver if you wanted to (Not that it actually did anything gamewise, mind you). Trading? Nonexistant. Apparently 100 years in the future the market is 100% stable. Prices never change, supply never dwindles or overfills... leaving a handful of "most profitable runs" for your trading ships to run over and over and over until you're ready to puke. Mining was no better. Float up to rock, zap the rock, see whats inside, pull out the good stuff... move on to next rock. Last and least was exploration, which was no more than a glorified game of connect the dots. See a "?" on your map? Fly to it for 50 exp. Repeat for every tiny little insignificant fucking node rock and planet in every system everywhere. Congrats, you're exploring! Its stuff everyone else knows about and can see on their map, but technically its new to you! Wow! Oh, i'm sorry, I forgot about the "hidden" nodes. Yeah, those were fun. Fly 10,000km off the beaten path in the hopes of finding something cool, only to find a lot of sweet fuck all. Woo. I found more 'hidden' and 'secret' shit by accidentally stumbling into it while chasing space monsters than actually roaming around looking for stuff. Not that any of it was worth anything other than the one-time 200xp bonus. Yippie.
I'm sorry, I really tried to like the game but it was just so horribly executed. Sure, the universe was big and there was a lot of stuff to see, but everything you did was so horribly wafer thin it couldn't possibly hold my attention for more than a few minutes.
The only previous comment here i'll agree with was the looks. E&B did have its moments... I'll always remember the first time I visited the Saturn sector and saw a huge rainbow of rocks (saturns rings) reflecting sunlight back at me. That was freaking awesome. Unfortunatly it wasn't the most beautiful space MMORPG i've ever seen... that honour goes to Jumpgate. While on the whole it was shorter on visuals, the most stunning thing i'd ever seen was the Pulsar sector (I think thats what it was called... it was in the very center of the map and had HEAVY flux activity). Flying into this thing was like swimming in a rainbow. I was utterly amazed at the time.
Otherwise though, I don't really see what you guys are talking about. Leveling up and creating your ship fell right into the same old RPG trap of "good, better, best" (Diablo 2 anyone?) where you were worthless if you didn't have the 'perfect' setup. The insides of bases were spartan, to say the least. What were they, three, maybe four rooms? Sprinkle a couple of NPCs and some mission terminals around, then fill the place with players madly rushing from one NPC or mission terminal and back to their ship. To me it looked more like a feedlot than the insides of a space station. And as for ballance... I dunno, maybe it got better as things went on, but in the beta at least, they could never get the damn game right. First, everyone uses lasers because they rock. Then lasers get nerfed, everyone loves missiles. Missiles get nerfed, everyone's using projectiles. We just went around and around and around from one "best" to the next, there wasn't ever a sense of ballance.
Maybe i'm just a cranky old bastard today (quite possible)... but of what I remember from the E&B beta it was a good idea, horribly executed. I'm not an MMO fan by any stretch of the imagination though, so maybe there are people out there who really did like it. I found it far too thin on substance for my liking though. Even a great story can't hold me for long if the gameplay is the equivalent of dining on cardboard.
Fortunatly, Epic has rarely concerned themselves with always doing things in an "economically viable" fashion. They give stuff away for free, lisence things for mod makers, have contests (MSU), hold educational seminars (Unreal University), and all sorts of wonderful stuff. Chances are pretty good that if UED4 is portable, it will happen eventually. Maybe not even because some fans out there would like to see it... I honestly wouldn't be suprised if it happened because one of the Epic guys wanted it himself!
Out of curiosity, I visited all of the publishers websites to look for interesting or recognizable (to me) game titles. Here's what I found (not sure if its all accurate but it should be close):
21-6 Productions - crap BraveTree - crap Chronic Logic - Pontifex 1 & 2 (if anyone remembers that neat little demo) Codemasters - Operation Flashpoint 1 & 2, IGI 2, Colin McRae Rally, TOCA, Dragon Empires, Dreamcatcher Interactive - Painkiller eGames - Raptor, Demonstar (loved those old shooters!), otherwise crap Eidos - Thief, Dues Ex, Hitman, Legacy of Kain, Tomb Raider, Commandos, Blood Omen; series' Enlight Interactive - X2: The Threat, Seven Kingdoms 1 & 2, Warlords Battlecry 3 Framework Studios - Crap GamerBlitz - Crap Gameware Development - Creatures GarageGames - Crap, other than the Torque engine licenses Global Software Publishing - Crap (educational/kids games) Interplay - Fallout, Freespace... oh hell, does it matter? Aren't these guys bankrupt anyways? Their website doesn't even fucking work, who cares! Kuma Reality Games - Some AA wannabe called Kumawar Legacy Interactive - Crap Max Gaming - Crap (Moon Tycoon anyone?) O-3 Entertainment - Crap (GTA wannabe) Riverdeep (aka Broderbund) - Crap (educational) Skunk Studios - Crap Vivendi Universal Games - AvP 2, Bard's Tale, CS:Z, Crash Bandicoot, Half-Life series, LOTR, NOLF 1 & 2, Simspons Hit n Run, SWAT 3 & 4, Diablo series, DAoC, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Middle-Earth Online, WoW, Ghost Master, Empire Earth series, Ground Control series, Homeworld 2 Atari Inc - Civilization series, Driver series, Deer Hunter series (groan), Independence War, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Unreal Tournament series, Enter the Matrix, Wheel of Time, Unreal 2, Moo3, NWN series, Mechwarrior 3
So the only 'real' publishers they have are Atari (kinda), VUG, and Eidos. Add Interplay if they aren't actually dead yet (again? still? whatever). Codemasters, Enlight, and Dreamcatcher might be capable of publishing something decent too, I suppose.
All things considered though, it isn't a very impressive lineup. Their three big names are heavily into other consoles - I suspect their involvment here is just a continuation of their diversification strategy. So the chances of Phantom having a big hit/exclusive (Halo, Mario, etc) are pretty much nil. I mean, unless the Phantom intends to corner the market on educational software, i'm guessing this little ghosty is gonna get pounded into a very, very small niche by the competition.
But we'll see. I intend to sit back and watch the fireworks, whatever they may be.:)
You should probably add to your defintion there a part about the person calling you a hacker actually knowing what the hell they're talking about... because by your current wording, i'd be a hacker. I'm not. My boss occasionally refers to me as "hacker" at work (other choice nicknames are "Dell", "Pentium", and "Bum-bum-bum-bum!" which is supposed to be the chimes from the Intel commercials. He tried to call me "Compaq" one time but I gave him a dirty look so he doesn't do that anymore).
My hacking skills that impressed him so? Tracking down a missing document on the company network (thanks to my amazing ability to press 'ctrl+f') so we could copy it to a floppy disc for safekeeping.
Last month I taught him to say "leet" (1337). I was so proud!:D
Actually, you're not supposed to have sex underwater. Its fine for the guy, but keep in mind that a girl's plumbing wasn't really designed to be plumbing. Pushing too much water up inside her with too much force could cause damage to sensitive things like her fallopian tubes. And even if you go at it gently, there's the risk of literally flooding her. Get enough water up the fallopian tubes and it could pass through the infundibulum abdominal ostium - meaning she gets water in her abdominal cavity, which could very likely give her a nasty infection. Either way there's a risk of illness/injury, permanent damage (infertillity?), or possibly even death (your trick moves aren't so sexy when they cause internal bleeding).
So by all means, get hot and steamy under the waves, but when you're gonna introduce her port to your hard drive, you should probably do it on the beach (or dock or poolside or whatever). Remember kiddies, interfacing safely isn't just about using a latex firewall!
Oh yeah, and *insert joke about slashdotters and their sex liv... Actually, screw it, someone else can get the +5 funny. I'm gonna go whack off while dreaming about poolside sex instead. Ok, i'll probably just end up reinstalling drivers, but lets pretend like I went and... err... wait, lets not.
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I'm stunned. How did a Slashdot post that involves the words "pubic" "bone" "urethra" "3 inches" "come here" and "finger" NOT have a joke in it, or NOT at least wind up being modded funny by a giggling 10 year old?!
Something is definitly rotten in the state Denmark.
The investments are simply not worth it, and the energy balance is heavily dependent on finding uranium with a high concentration of the good isotope, else the enrichment costs eat up money and energy.
Actually, not all nuclear powerplants require enriched uranium to operate. Certain designs, like Canada's CANDU plants, can use plain ol' unenriched uranium as fuel. The only problem is, the reactors then require heavy water (D20) as a moderator to sustain the reaction.
So really, it depends on which is more expensive to produce. Enriched uranium, or deuterium?
I know this is bound to light a fire under a few peoples pants, but most of TBE (Tabbrowser Extensions) really should be stuffed into Firefox itself. It's just got too many good features to be totally left in the cold as an "extension". It's one of the two extensions I consider critical to my 'Zilla browsing experience (the other one being All-in-One Gestures, because mouse gestures are, to quote a friend, "teh fucking pwn")
Lemmy start a small laundry list of TBE's perks though:
-Single window mode (EVERYTHING opens in a new tab)
-Drag & Drop tab rearranging (its just common sense)
-Undo close tab (possibly the BEST feature of the entire extension. I use it daily)
-Modifyable tab bar (move it around, scroll it, make it double layered, etc)
-Customized tab behavior for new links (hypertext/bookmarks/history/javascript/external apps/etc: choose if they open a new window, tab, or load in an existing one. Very nice for steamlining your browsing experience.)
-Tab grouping (including pretty colours!)
-Tab locking (lock a tab to a specific page)
-Auto reloading of tabs
I could go on and on... TBE is like everything AND the damn kitchen sink (which is why some people seem to have a seething hatred of it). Really though, would it kill Mozilla to add just a few of the more popular features? I know extensions are supposed to be this big, grand, wonderful idea, but I think a LOT more people (especially average joe's) would be appreciative rather than pissed off to have a couple more handy dandy features. You've got to remember that if you want your browser to go mainstream, its got to have a bit of a "smack you in the face" slant for all the little old ladies and joe-sixpacks out there that aren't gonna spend an hour sifting through the extension library. Leave the "OMG my browzer has NO bloat n' runs 1.00283% fastr on my AMD becuz I compiel'd it myself" to the geeks who know and love that kind of stuff.
Just my $0.02 anyways. In the meantime i'm just gonna keep loving the hell out of this browser. Firefox RULES! \o/
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What?! We can do that?! Well where's my governor's daughter!?!
Oh, I mean.... Shiver me timbers! Whar' be thar scurvy landlubber who's fair lass I may be hav'n ta tup? YARR!!
*Ahem* Now if you'll excuse me, my download is just about finished here... time to watch a movie! Now where I put me dish o' popper-corn and mug o' ale? Yarr!
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Prison is NOT about reform. It's about punishment and deterrent. Period.
See, this is EXACTLY where Republican USA and Liberal Canada differ. In Canada, the penal system is not about ridding the world of murders and rapists, or locking people away forever. Yes, it is a punishment and a deterrent, but it's those things with the hope - nay, expectation - of reform. I think you'll find Canadians (and many other parts of the world for that matter) will agree that making a productive member of society out of a troublemaker is far better than just locking them away forever. If it's ever at all nessecary to remove someone from the general populace, it should be done with the expectation that they can be rehabilitated and reintroduced, safely, back into the public. Sure, in some extreme cases, this process might take a very long time if it ever happens at all, but the possibility is almost always there. Maybe its something in the water, but generally, ours is a society that believes in second chances. How can you justify seizing ultimate power over someone elses life? Just because a book or a rule somewhere says you can? If murder is really one of the ultimate sins against society, what makes it acceptable for the same society to turn around and weild it as a weapon or tool? Surely there are alternate methods that could be persued, rather than just exterminating troublesome members of society.
Not that i'm a Liberal Canadian myself, mind you. I'm actually more right-wing than anything (which is still tame by American standards), but I just wanted to offer an alternative viewpoint. I'd actually agree with you on the case that this guy probably should have been given more jailtime. I don't think that gives anyone the right to use him as a slave though. But I guess thats just the difference between you and me, and where we live. Me, I kind of like Canada, even if it can be a little soft at times.
Wow, thats ironic. I drive a 92 Plymouth Laser too! What are the odds of that? (:
Just be glad we drive the lesser-known of the DSM triplets... where I live at least, insuring an identical Talon (or Eclipse) will cost you about $50-$80 more. ?!?!
Prove it how? I've never been in an accident, that's proof enough for me. I don't have a problem with fast driving as much as I do with reckless, careless driving.
Amen to that. Why don't they invent a box that records how often people use their turn signals or shoulder check or something? I mean, how many near-accidents do you see in a day that are because someone was going 'too fast'? Now how many near-accidents do you see in a day that are because some dipshit didn't look around them before changing lanes or were too busy yakking on their cellphone? Going 5 or 10 over the limit isn't what causes accidents - its people not fucking paying attention. We should be more concerned about getting the inattentive morons off our roads than the people with a heavy right foot.
Yeah, I woulda loved Sask insurance had I not moved to Alberta before I could drive.
Picture this: Me (17) and my cousin (18) drove nearly identical cars (1G DSMs). I'm in Alberta, I payed $3200 a year. He's in Sask, he payed $800 or so. I was like "WTF?! Mom, Dad, can we move BACK!?" Ok, maybe not that last part...:P
Since then though, my insurance has gone as high as $4200, and is just now (that i'm 21!) dropping back down to around $2800, even though i've got a spotless record. My cousin wrote off his Talon in the first year, and has speeding tickets coming out his ass. Yet he still only pays like $1000 or less for insurance.
No one knows if we'll see a UT2005, but what HAS been announced is "UT2004: Editors Choice Edition". Its gonna be all of UT2004, plus new maps, three new vehicles, six new characters (return of the Necris and MetalGuard AFAIK), and some of the top mods in the community today (Frag Ops, Red Orchestra, and UnWheel are all i've heard of so far). Some people might consider this to be sort of like a "UT2005", though its supposed to be released sometime this fall. At any rate, the good news is all the additional Editors Choice content will be available to UT2004 owners for free. So really, this 'update' is no different from when the original Unreal Tournament was re-released as the "Game of the Year Edition" (GOTY). Same game, only patched with some new toys and a bunch of mods right in the box, for all those people who missed the boat for the original release.:)
So will we ever see a UT2005 or UT2006? The only definitive answer is maybe. Chances are pretty good though, that if there IS an 05 or 06, they'll merely be re-releases with updated content that any existing UT2004 owner can snag for free.
As for a UT2007 (or '08)... now THAT we might have to pay for again. But it'll be a totally new engine (yes, supposedly that swanky new Unreal Engine 3 that has everyone drooling) and game content, so its all good. But we'll just have to see what Epic cooks up for us next. All I know for sure is that, free or not, i'll be there allong with half a million others in the Unreal Legion.
Heh, a while ago I read a guide on HardOCP about how to install a blowhole in the top of your computer case. It had one sentence that went like so:
"I know I am anal enough that if my blowhole were cocked to one side, it would drive me nuts. (Show me another non-sexual sentence that uses "anal, cocked, blowhole, and nuts" and you will have my props.)
This story title doesn't use those exact words, but surely getting four sexual innuendos in any sort of casual sentence is a worthy accomplishment.:)
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Hey, if helium makes your voice really high... would anti-helium make your voice really deep? That'd be cool! You could like sell it or something.
Bet you'd make a lot of money if you could find a large audience primarilly composed of, say, young males plagued with high pitched, nasaly voices. Hmm... now if only I knew of such a place...
Everyone does it, and just because one person has to install a firewall and another person has to hunt down drivers doesn't make either person superior to the other. Yeah I know, this is slashdot, where "Windows sux and Linux rulez", but if we're going to be asking serious questions we might as well be giving serious answers.
Myself, I use KPF and AVG, with AdAware on the side. Fortunatly, these three programs don't have much to do, thanks to Firefox and my cheap yet trusty DI-604 router. I'm actually going to be putting together a box for my parents this weekend too, so i've been busy loading up my USB flash drive with some of the aforementioned programs, and other first boot goodies. And if i'm lucky, my parents will turn over custody of their old computer (an aging P3-500) to me, which I hope to turn into my very first Linux box to muck around on. Then i'll get to experience the numerous pains-in-the-ass of both worlds! Should be fun.
Whoa guys, hang on here. I was in the beta too, and in my not so humble opinion, E&B SUCKED. Every single aspect of it was little more than a poorly disguised leveling treadmill. Combat was utterly worthless... fly to target, use special ability A B or C, set most powerful weapon to autofire, wait until someone dies. Dogfighting? What's that? Hell, space wasn't even 3D - it was a flat plane with about 15 feet of vertical space before your ship magically leveled off - so you couldn't even manuver if you wanted to (Not that it actually did anything gamewise, mind you). Trading? Nonexistant. Apparently 100 years in the future the market is 100% stable. Prices never change, supply never dwindles or overfills... leaving a handful of "most profitable runs" for your trading ships to run over and over and over until you're ready to puke. Mining was no better. Float up to rock, zap the rock, see whats inside, pull out the good stuff... move on to next rock. Last and least was exploration, which was no more than a glorified game of connect the dots. See a "?" on your map? Fly to it for 50 exp. Repeat for every tiny little insignificant fucking node rock and planet in every system everywhere. Congrats, you're exploring! Its stuff everyone else knows about and can see on their map, but technically its new to you! Wow! Oh, i'm sorry, I forgot about the "hidden" nodes. Yeah, those were fun. Fly 10,000km off the beaten path in the hopes of finding something cool, only to find a lot of sweet fuck all. Woo. I found more 'hidden' and 'secret' shit by accidentally stumbling into it while chasing space monsters than actually roaming around looking for stuff. Not that any of it was worth anything other than the one-time 200xp bonus. Yippie.
I'm sorry, I really tried to like the game but it was just so horribly executed. Sure, the universe was big and there was a lot of stuff to see, but everything you did was so horribly wafer thin it couldn't possibly hold my attention for more than a few minutes.
The only previous comment here i'll agree with was the looks. E&B did have its moments... I'll always remember the first time I visited the Saturn sector and saw a huge rainbow of rocks (saturns rings) reflecting sunlight back at me. That was freaking awesome. Unfortunatly it wasn't the most beautiful space MMORPG i've ever seen... that honour goes to Jumpgate. While on the whole it was shorter on visuals, the most stunning thing i'd ever seen was the Pulsar sector (I think thats what it was called... it was in the very center of the map and had HEAVY flux activity). Flying into this thing was like swimming in a rainbow. I was utterly amazed at the time.
Otherwise though, I don't really see what you guys are talking about. Leveling up and creating your ship fell right into the same old RPG trap of "good, better, best" (Diablo 2 anyone?) where you were worthless if you didn't have the 'perfect' setup. The insides of bases were spartan, to say the least. What were they, three, maybe four rooms? Sprinkle a couple of NPCs and some mission terminals around, then fill the place with players madly rushing from one NPC or mission terminal and back to their ship. To me it looked more like a feedlot than the insides of a space station. And as for ballance... I dunno, maybe it got better as things went on, but in the beta at least, they could never get the damn game right. First, everyone uses lasers because they rock. Then lasers get nerfed, everyone loves missiles. Missiles get nerfed, everyone's using projectiles. We just went around and around and around from one "best" to the next, there wasn't ever a sense of ballance.
Maybe i'm just a cranky old bastard today (quite possible)... but of what I remember from the E&B beta it was a good idea, horribly executed. I'm not an MMO fan by any stretch of the imagination though, so maybe there are people out there who really did like it. I found it far too thin on substance for my liking though. Even a great story can't hold me for long if the gameplay is the equivalent of dining on cardboard.
But hey, thats just me.
Cheers.
Fortunatly, Epic has rarely concerned themselves with always doing things in an "economically viable" fashion. They give stuff away for free, lisence things for mod makers, have contests (MSU), hold educational seminars (Unreal University), and all sorts of wonderful stuff. Chances are pretty good that if UED4 is portable, it will happen eventually. Maybe not even because some fans out there would like to see it... I honestly wouldn't be suprised if it happened because one of the Epic guys wanted it himself!
Epic > *
Out of curiosity, I visited all of the publishers websites to look for interesting or recognizable (to me) game titles. Here's what I found (not sure if its all accurate but it should be close):
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21-6 Productions - crap
BraveTree - crap
Chronic Logic - Pontifex 1 & 2 (if anyone remembers that neat little demo)
Codemasters - Operation Flashpoint 1 & 2, IGI 2, Colin McRae Rally, TOCA, Dragon Empires,
Dreamcatcher Interactive - Painkiller
eGames - Raptor, Demonstar (loved those old shooters!), otherwise crap
Eidos - Thief, Dues Ex, Hitman, Legacy of Kain, Tomb Raider, Commandos, Blood Omen; series'
Enlight Interactive - X2: The Threat, Seven Kingdoms 1 & 2, Warlords Battlecry 3
Framework Studios - Crap
GamerBlitz - Crap
Gameware Development - Creatures
GarageGames - Crap, other than the Torque engine licenses
Global Software Publishing - Crap (educational/kids games)
Interplay - Fallout, Freespace... oh hell, does it matter? Aren't these guys bankrupt anyways? Their website doesn't even fucking work, who cares!
Kuma Reality Games - Some AA wannabe called Kumawar
Legacy Interactive - Crap
Max Gaming - Crap (Moon Tycoon anyone?)
O-3 Entertainment - Crap (GTA wannabe)
Riverdeep (aka Broderbund) - Crap (educational)
Skunk Studios - Crap
Vivendi Universal Games - AvP 2, Bard's Tale, CS:Z, Crash Bandicoot, Half-Life series, LOTR, NOLF 1 & 2, Simspons Hit n Run, SWAT 3 & 4, Diablo series, DAoC, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Middle-Earth Online, WoW, Ghost Master, Empire Earth series, Ground Control series, Homeworld 2
Atari Inc - Civilization series, Driver series, Deer Hunter series (groan), Independence War, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Unreal Tournament series, Enter the Matrix, Wheel of Time, Unreal 2, Moo3, NWN series, Mechwarrior 3
So the only 'real' publishers they have are Atari (kinda), VUG, and Eidos. Add Interplay if they aren't actually dead yet (again? still? whatever). Codemasters, Enlight, and Dreamcatcher might be capable of publishing something decent too, I suppose.
All things considered though, it isn't a very impressive lineup. Their three big names are heavily into other consoles - I suspect their involvment here is just a continuation of their diversification strategy. So the chances of Phantom having a big hit/exclusive (Halo, Mario, etc) are pretty much nil. I mean, unless the Phantom intends to corner the market on educational software, i'm guessing this little ghosty is gonna get pounded into a very, very small niche by the competition.
But we'll see. I intend to sit back and watch the fireworks, whatever they may be.
You should probably add to your defintion there a part about the person calling you a hacker actually knowing what the hell they're talking about... because by your current wording, i'd be a hacker. I'm not. My boss occasionally refers to me as "hacker" at work (other choice nicknames are "Dell", "Pentium", and "Bum-bum-bum-bum!" which is supposed to be the chimes from the Intel commercials. He tried to call me "Compaq" one time but I gave him a dirty look so he doesn't do that anymore).
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My hacking skills that impressed him so? Tracking down a missing document on the company network (thanks to my amazing ability to press 'ctrl+f') so we could copy it to a floppy disc for safekeeping.
Last month I taught him to say "leet" (1337). I was so proud!
Actually, you're not supposed to have sex underwater. Its fine for the guy, but keep in mind that a girl's plumbing wasn't really designed to be plumbing. Pushing too much water up inside her with too much force could cause damage to sensitive things like her fallopian tubes. And even if you go at it gently, there's the risk of literally flooding her. Get enough water up the fallopian tubes and it could pass through the infundibulum abdominal ostium - meaning she gets water in her abdominal cavity, which could very likely give her a nasty infection. Either way there's a risk of illness/injury, permanent damage (infertillity?), or possibly even death (your trick moves aren't so sexy when they cause internal bleeding).
So by all means, get hot and steamy under the waves, but when you're gonna introduce her port to your hard drive, you should probably do it on the beach (or dock or poolside or whatever). Remember kiddies, interfacing safely isn't just about using a latex firewall!
Oh yeah, and *insert joke about slashdotters and their sex liv... Actually, screw it, someone else can get the +5 funny. I'm gonna go whack off while dreaming about poolside sex instead. Ok, i'll probably just end up reinstalling drivers, but lets pretend like I went and... err... wait, lets not.
That's commuting.
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This is driving.
Next week on Slashdot: Blizzard's WoW servers taken out by Blizzard
A lot of software is "By Invite Only". The "Invite" usually being a wad of cash.
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Which is why God made P2P, FTPs, Torrents, and the exclamation "Yarr!"
I'm stunned. How did a Slashdot post that involves the words "pubic" "bone" "urethra" "3 inches" "come here" and "finger" NOT have a joke in it, or NOT at least wind up being modded funny by a giggling 10 year old?!
...or maybe that's just someone's girlfriend?
Something is definitly rotten in the state Denmark.
*Runs like hell*
Only certain versions of Daemon tools work. I've got 3.46, and it works perfectly, but i've heard reports of older versions being blocked.
So really, it depends on which is more expensive to produce. Enriched uranium, or deuterium?
I know this is bound to light a fire under a few peoples pants, but most of TBE (Tabbrowser Extensions) really should be stuffed into Firefox itself. It's just got too many good features to be totally left in the cold as an "extension". It's one of the two extensions I consider critical to my 'Zilla browsing experience (the other one being All-in-One Gestures, because mouse gestures are, to quote a friend, "teh fucking pwn")
Lemmy start a small laundry list of TBE's perks though:
-Single window mode (EVERYTHING opens in a new tab)
-Drag & Drop tab rearranging (its just common sense)
-Undo close tab (possibly the BEST feature of the entire extension. I use it daily)
-Modifyable tab bar (move it around, scroll it, make it double layered, etc)
-Customized tab behavior for new links (hypertext/bookmarks/history/javascript/external apps/etc: choose if they open a new window, tab, or load in an existing one. Very nice for steamlining your browsing experience.)
-Tab grouping (including pretty colours!)
-Tab locking (lock a tab to a specific page)
-Auto reloading of tabs
I could go on and on... TBE is like everything AND the damn kitchen sink (which is why some people seem to have a seething hatred of it). Really though, would it kill Mozilla to add just a few of the more popular features? I know extensions are supposed to be this big, grand, wonderful idea, but I think a LOT more people (especially average joe's) would be appreciative rather than pissed off to have a couple more handy dandy features. You've got to remember that if you want your browser to go mainstream, its got to have a bit of a "smack you in the face" slant for all the little old ladies and joe-sixpacks out there that aren't gonna spend an hour sifting through the extension library. Leave the "OMG my browzer has NO bloat n' runs 1.00283% fastr on my AMD becuz I compiel'd it myself" to the geeks who know and love that kind of stuff.
Just my $0.02 anyways. In the meantime i'm just gonna keep loving the hell out of this browser. Firefox RULES! \o/
Someone already did. You were 5 minutes late ;)
I just - and I mean JUST, like 5 minutes ago - upgraded to FFox 1.0PR, and Flashblock 1.0 (aka: Flash Click-to-View) still works for me. :)
Oh, and just because an extension isn't listed as "xxx compatible" doesn't mean it won't still work.
What?! We can do that?! Well where's my governor's daughter!?!
Oh, I mean.... Shiver me timbers! Whar' be thar scurvy landlubber who's fair lass I may be hav'n ta tup? YARR!!
*Ahem* Now if you'll excuse me, my download is just about finished here... time to watch a movie! Now where I put me dish o' popper-corn and mug o' ale? Yarr!
And then you replied to the freaking story?!
You, sir, are officially addicted to slashdot.
(C'mon in! Coffee is in the back, help yourself.)
Not that i'm a Liberal Canadian myself, mind you. I'm actually more right-wing than anything (which is still tame by American standards), but I just wanted to offer an alternative viewpoint. I'd actually agree with you on the case that this guy probably should have been given more jailtime. I don't think that gives anyone the right to use him as a slave though. But I guess thats just the difference between you and me, and where we live. Me, I kind of like Canada, even if it can be a little soft at times.
Cheers, eh?
Anyone else find it odd that a self-proclaimed mother would use the name "enforcer999" online?
Jeez, maybe that little "M0rpH3uS69" punk I fragged the other day was actually the nice old lady down the street!
Wow, thats ironic. I drive a 92 Plymouth Laser too! What are the odds of that? (:
Just be glad we drive the lesser-known of the DSM triplets... where I live at least, insuring an identical Talon (or Eclipse) will cost you about $50-$80 more. ?!?!
Yeah, I woulda loved Sask insurance had I not moved to Alberta before I could drive.
:P
Picture this: Me (17) and my cousin (18) drove nearly identical cars (1G DSMs). I'm in Alberta, I payed $3200 a year. He's in Sask, he payed $800 or so. I was like "WTF?! Mom, Dad, can we move BACK!?" Ok, maybe not that last part...
Since then though, my insurance has gone as high as $4200, and is just now (that i'm 21!) dropping back down to around $2800, even though i've got a spotless record. My cousin wrote off his Talon in the first year, and has speeding tickets coming out his ass. Yet he still only pays like $1000 or less for insurance.
@#$*# private insurance companies!!
No one knows if we'll see a UT2005, but what HAS been announced is "UT2004: Editors Choice Edition". Its gonna be all of UT2004, plus new maps, three new vehicles, six new characters (return of the Necris and MetalGuard AFAIK), and some of the top mods in the community today (Frag Ops, Red Orchestra, and UnWheel are all i've heard of so far). Some people might consider this to be sort of like a "UT2005", though its supposed to be released sometime this fall. At any rate, the good news is all the additional Editors Choice content will be available to UT2004 owners for free. So really, this 'update' is no different from when the original Unreal Tournament was re-released as the "Game of the Year Edition" (GOTY). Same game, only patched with some new toys and a bunch of mods right in the box, for all those people who missed the boat for the original release. :)
So will we ever see a UT2005 or UT2006? The only definitive answer is maybe. Chances are pretty good though, that if there IS an 05 or 06, they'll merely be re-releases with updated content that any existing UT2004 owner can snag for free.
As for a UT2007 (or '08)... now THAT we might have to pay for again. But it'll be a totally new engine (yes, supposedly that swanky new Unreal Engine 3 that has everyone drooling) and game content, so its all good. But we'll just have to see what Epic cooks up for us next. All I know for sure is that, free or not, i'll be there allong with half a million others in the Unreal Legion.
Happy Fragging everyone!
This story title doesn't use those exact words, but surely getting four sexual innuendos in any sort of casual sentence is a worthy accomplishment.