I somehow get the feeling that some scientist were sitting around the lab drinking cheap beer, and wondered what they'd have to do to get the Saturn data to sound EXACTLY like something out of a poor-quality 50's space flick.
I think they decided it was futile and just put on an episode of Lost in Space and hit record.
Speaking of eerie... that's almost the EXACT conversation I just had with MY wife. But then again, considering that this is Slashdot, I'd say this conversation's most likely been happening all over the world tonight.
No, you two are the only people on Slashdot with women in their lives.
The chances of anything coming from Saturn are a
million to one, they said.
They didn't get to finish their sentence, and were distracted at the end. What they meant to say was, "The chances of anything coming from Saturn are a million and one to a million and two, or a million and one million and secondsths."
The wording of the article is terrible. "Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer", I want to build a 10 petaflop computer, too, does that mean I am capable of that? No. The difference is Japan set forth the process of creating a 10 petaflop computer. The article should read something like "Japan Building 10 Petaflop Supercomputer".
Consider quitting your job. Take a serious look at what the military that your industry supports is doing to people all over the world. This post may be flame bait, but as an American, I think we all need to take a look at the ethical implications of our economic actions.
Why are you using the Internet? Don't you know, the Internet is a means of communications for terrorists? It was also created by the US Military, so I would be careful.
I would also stay away from movies and music, since the *AA are being such dicks, and stay away from TV, because TV makes America stupid, and stay away from games, because gaming makes little kids shoot each other, and stay away from clocks, because clocks can be used to trigger bombs, and stay away from computers, because they can be used to solve equations to increase the efficiency of nuclear bombs.
Also, while you're at it, stay away from people, because they can do those calculations in their heads. Be a lone amish person.
EVERYTHING can be used as a weapon, even your fists, so cut your hands off too. We, the people, of the technology industry of America, do not support what the military may or may not do with our technologies in regards to killing people. We are in the technology industry because we like doing what we do, and it helps more people out that just the military. The military is helped out by scientists of every kind, genetically engineered food, for instance, can be used to feed troops cheaply and easily, and it can also help out starving children all over the world.
If we all thought like you did, there would be no innovation, because every innovation benefits the military, as it does the rest of society.
During my long years I've been both a software engineer and a systems engineer (and a brief stint as a manager that we just won't talk about, mmmmkay?)
You don't say "I was a manager. Disregard my previous statement.", you press BACKSPACE and remove it. You saying you were a manager, even for a brief time, ruins all of your credibility. As it was put in Dilbert, "you drank from the manager's cup". That's it, you are through, you've lost the knack. Dilbert is a fictional show, so you can't get it back like Dilbert was able to do.
Maybe something that would help the genre is a consistent definition... What I previously thought was "adventure game" would be categorized as "Action" by the people here it would seem. Really, any game nowadays could be classified as action. I always thought the Oddworld series was considered an adventure game. The same with most platforming games. All except the newest, "Stranger's Wrath" which I quite obviously categorized as full fledged action game (you are in first person shooting a crossbow most of the time).
I then popped over to GameSpot to see what they categorized them as. "Action"... okay... and Stranger's Wrath? ADVENTURE! What?
IGN has some listed as Platformer, some as Adventure, some as Action/Adventure... okay I'm completely confused now.
What is an Adventure game? One of those point and click games such as Day of the Tentacle? Is that all is considered "Adventure"?
Please. All open source OSes worth talking about have robust package management systems that automatically handle dependencies and downloading from mirrored network servers.
Just face it, any computer which an intruder has physical access to should be considered compromised.
Why does EVERYONE seem to believe this?
They may be able to boot to their own OS, but there are ways you can prevent them from getting root access to YOUR OS, and screwing around with YOUR files.
Encrypt the root filesystem, and have the computer boot from USB. Then, without bruteforcing your encrypted partition, there is no way for them to mess with your stuff.
Now to attack the Sims 2. This guy is sad. Does he not have a girlfriend? What other possible reason could he have for going looking in videogames for nude people?
For Hot Coffee, the guy was probably just looking around the content to see what they had and stumbled across the scene.
For Sims 2, someone probably wanted to shove an "E for Everyone" game the same direction to prove a point that this (the possible banning of GTA because of Hot Coffee) is ridiculous.
No one's creative work "needs" anything. If you don't like what someone has made, then make your own.
Not only that, but if the society the game is revolved around is sexist, then the game damn well better be sexist as well. I'm referring to the "bikini trophies" for the male gunmen... well, if (I have no idea, I'm posting on Slashdot after all) gang society has majority male gunmen and slutty women as hos, then the game SHOULD have it that way.
Isn't there some rule of thumb - never fight evil with evil?
While that may be true, what is all forms of law enforcement? A criminal shoots at you, you shoot back, except this time you will probably hit them.
The death penalty for killing someone, fighting evil with evil?
I'm not sure anymore... some people may only learn from their evils by getting that same evil done on them. Much like that article about the DRM advocate bypassing DRM. "Get a taste of your own medicine" type thing.
Maybe we should spam spammers? But if you are going to SPAM spammers, do it right, you should DDoS DDoSers, and spam spammers, not DDoS spammers.
Spamming them would be signing up 1000000000 fake emails up for them to spam, that would be better than knocking their systems offline.
Men watch more sports and news. And women watch more dramas.
I'm male, and I don't get the whole sports thing. At all. It just completely eludes me. I also don't get the crap that gets masqueraded as a show on networks such as Lifetime or Oxygen. Those shows are ALWAYS (I mean, ALWAYS) about a woman getting screwed by her husband. Why would a (hopefully happily) married woman want to watch that? Do they WANT to get ditched by their husband?
It's easier to think of it in terms of fractions, a little over a third of all TV programming is commercials.
30 minute shows usually end up being 20-22 minutes long, 1 hour shows usually end up being 40-44 minutes long.
I only watch "real" TV for one show a week at a time, maximum, now. BitTorrent rules (don't even have to remember to hit record, I can get shows as far back as the 1970s!).
Freedom comes first, money comes second(not that there is nothing between freedom and money on the list). Do the world a favour and never vote for anyone who disagrees.
First, start on a floor you know has access to this access point. Then, get in the elevator and hit the top floor. Note what floor you get disconnected on. Do the same going down, and average those numbers together and you have the floor it's on.
Once you are there, gather everyone around, and tell them that you know one of them has a wireless access point around. The first person to turn around and hurry away sneakily is your guy. Pull out your gun and shoot him in the back. Find his desk and everywhere he goes, and you'll eventually find the access point. Problem solved.
Or were you wanting to do this legally? Then I would just get them in a headlock and "nugey" them until they tell you where it is.
Ok...I feel nauseated now. Great. Maybe I'll go watch Blade Runner so I can watch real insight in a beautiful film. That'll make me feel better.
I was with you up to this statement...
Blade Runner wasn't really good either, IMHO. I've heard it's a classic and all that, but I just don't get it.
It seems like just a below par Sci-Fi film with Harrison Ford in it. I don't say this because it is "different" from most Sci-Fi films, my earlier recommendation of Brazil is different from every Sci-Fi film I know of, and it's probably my favorite movie.
Blade Runner just seemed to be empty to me, it seemed more like a sci-fi/noire film mixed together, and it didn't work for me. Dark City did a better job of that.
example: a lot of teenagers have mentioned to me how they hated 'napoleon dynamite' but people over 20 generally love it.
Maybe I'm in an isolated area of the world, but I don't know one person under 40 that has seen that movie that doesn't like it. That includes teenagers, and even 7 year olds.
I know a few people over 40 that don't like it, but I also know quite a few people in their mid 50s that love it as well.
I would actually say the majority of people I know that like it are in their teens.
Rather than paying attention to the beauty of the movie and the hard work those actors put in they were bored by long stretches of quiet time and scenes that required thought.
So, if people put a lot of work into a movie, it is automatically good?
I have to disagree. I saw AI, and it was not "beautiful". It was not only boring, but the story was horrible, and the scenes were dull. I even like the majority of what Kubrick puts out.
If you are wanting a strange, beautiful, weird, and strange movie, I would recommend Brazil or The Life Aquatic.
The art gallery analogy is just slightly flawed, sneaking in is more like showing people how to hack Valve's Steam engine to get free Half-Life 2.
The "copyright infringement" approach would be someone paying to get in, taking pictures of everything (with "no pictures" signs hanging up on the wall), and renting a building or something where they blow up their pictures to the actual size and make an exact copy of the art gallery and charging nothing for people to come in, without the same people that are actually IN the art gallery, only some of your friends (no network play, only LAN games;)).
The whole purpose of these laws are not merely to compensate the 'victim', but to dissuade people commiting the offense in the first place.
Okay, then $50 (and maybe say $30 extra) for the game goes to the company, and the other "deterrent fee" goes to the government. None of this "I deserve $200k" bullshit from the companies.
If you think this is unfair to the businesses, making them less likely to take people to court, well, that's the case with all civil cases. My dad owned a car lot and still has people that owe money on their cars. They aren't paying and the only thing he can do is take them to court and get a court order to get them to pay, and when they don't, they get thrown in jail for disobeying the court. He's not going to do that though considering the thousands of dollars the lawyer would cost him, and the zero gain he will get out of it.
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I somehow get the feeling that some scientist were sitting around the lab drinking cheap beer, and wondered what they'd have to do to get the Saturn data to sound EXACTLY like something out of a poor-quality 50's space flick.
I think they decided it was futile and just put on an episode of Lost in Space and hit record.
Speaking of eerie... that's almost the EXACT conversation I just had with MY wife. But then again, considering that this is Slashdot, I'd say this conversation's most likely been happening all over the world tonight.
No, you two are the only people on Slashdot with women in their lives.
The chances of anything coming from Saturn are a million to one, they said.
They didn't get to finish their sentence, and were distracted at the end. What they meant to say was, "The chances of anything coming from Saturn are a million and one to a million and two, or a million and one million and secondsths."
The wording of the article is terrible. "Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer", I want to build a 10 petaflop computer, too, does that mean I am capable of that? No. The difference is Japan set forth the process of creating a 10 petaflop computer. The article should read something like "Japan Building 10 Petaflop Supercomputer".
Consider quitting your job. Take a serious look at what the military that your industry supports is doing to people all over the world. This post may be flame bait, but as an American, I think we all need to take a look at the ethical implications of our economic actions.
Why are you using the Internet? Don't you know, the Internet is a means of communications for terrorists? It was also created by the US Military, so I would be careful.
I would also stay away from movies and music, since the *AA are being such dicks, and stay away from TV, because TV makes America stupid, and stay away from games, because gaming makes little kids shoot each other, and stay away from clocks, because clocks can be used to trigger bombs, and stay away from computers, because they can be used to solve equations to increase the efficiency of nuclear bombs.
Also, while you're at it, stay away from people, because they can do those calculations in their heads. Be a lone amish person.
EVERYTHING can be used as a weapon, even your fists, so cut your hands off too. We, the people, of the technology industry of America, do not support what the military may or may not do with our technologies in regards to killing people. We are in the technology industry because we like doing what we do, and it helps more people out that just the military. The military is helped out by scientists of every kind, genetically engineered food, for instance, can be used to feed troops cheaply and easily, and it can also help out starving children all over the world.
If we all thought like you did, there would be no innovation, because every innovation benefits the military, as it does the rest of society.
During my long years I've been both a software engineer and a systems engineer (and a brief stint as a manager that we just won't talk about, mmmmkay?)
You don't say "I was a manager. Disregard my previous statement.", you press BACKSPACE and remove it. You saying you were a manager, even for a brief time, ruins all of your credibility. As it was put in Dilbert, "you drank from the manager's cup". That's it, you are through, you've lost the knack. Dilbert is a fictional show, so you can't get it back like Dilbert was able to do.
Maybe something that would help the genre is a consistent definition... What I previously thought was "adventure game" would be categorized as "Action" by the people here it would seem. Really, any game nowadays could be classified as action. I always thought the Oddworld series was considered an adventure game. The same with most platforming games. All except the newest, "Stranger's Wrath" which I quite obviously categorized as full fledged action game (you are in first person shooting a crossbow most of the time).
I then popped over to GameSpot to see what they categorized them as. "Action"... okay... and Stranger's Wrath? ADVENTURE! What?
IGN has some listed as Platformer, some as Adventure, some as Action/Adventure... okay I'm completely confused now.
What is an Adventure game? One of those point and click games such as Day of the Tentacle? Is that all is considered "Adventure"?
Please. All open source OSes worth talking about have robust package management systems that automatically handle dependencies and downloading from mirrored network servers.
So Slackware isn't worth talking about?
Just face it, any computer which an intruder has physical access to should be considered compromised.
Why does EVERYONE seem to believe this?
They may be able to boot to their own OS, but there are ways you can prevent them from getting root access to YOUR OS, and screwing around with YOUR files.
Encrypt the root filesystem, and have the computer boot from USB. Then, without bruteforcing your encrypted partition, there is no way for them to mess with your stuff.
lol I lol lol wow lol lol I can't lol lol lol.
Enough with the "lol"s already.
Now to attack the Sims 2. This guy is sad. Does he not have a girlfriend? What other possible reason could he have for going looking in videogames for nude people?
For Hot Coffee, the guy was probably just looking around the content to see what they had and stumbled across the scene.
For Sims 2, someone probably wanted to shove an "E for Everyone" game the same direction to prove a point that this (the possible banning of GTA because of Hot Coffee) is ridiculous.
No one's creative work "needs" anything. If you don't like what someone has made, then make your own.
Not only that, but if the society the game is revolved around is sexist, then the game damn well better be sexist as well. I'm referring to the "bikini trophies" for the male gunmen... well, if (I have no idea, I'm posting on Slashdot after all) gang society has majority male gunmen and slutty women as hos, then the game SHOULD have it that way.
Isn't there some rule of thumb - never fight evil with evil?
While that may be true, what is all forms of law enforcement? A criminal shoots at you, you shoot back, except this time you will probably hit them.
The death penalty for killing someone, fighting evil with evil?
I'm not sure anymore... some people may only learn from their evils by getting that same evil done on them. Much like that article about the DRM advocate bypassing DRM. "Get a taste of your own medicine" type thing.
Maybe we should spam spammers? But if you are going to SPAM spammers, do it right, you should DDoS DDoSers, and spam spammers, not DDoS spammers.
Spamming them would be signing up 1000000000 fake emails up for them to spam, that would be better than knocking their systems offline.
Men watch more sports and news. And women watch more dramas.
I'm male, and I don't get the whole sports thing. At all. It just completely eludes me. I also don't get the crap that gets masqueraded as a show on networks such as Lifetime or Oxygen. Those shows are ALWAYS (I mean, ALWAYS) about a woman getting screwed by her husband. Why would a (hopefully happily) married woman want to watch that? Do they WANT to get ditched by their husband?
Currently it's about 15-19 minutes per hour.
It's easier to think of it in terms of fractions, a little over a third of all TV programming is commercials.
30 minute shows usually end up being 20-22 minutes long, 1 hour shows usually end up being 40-44 minutes long.
I only watch "real" TV for one show a week at a time, maximum, now. BitTorrent rules (don't even have to remember to hit record, I can get shows as far back as the 1970s!).
I haven't had that good of a laugh in years...
Thank you, mod parent up.
Freedom comes first, money comes second(not that there is nothing between freedom and money on the list). Do the world a favour and never vote for anyone who disagrees.
So you are suggesting I don't vote anymore?
Oh man... two great shows start up at the same time, at the same time, ON THE SAME DAY!
Monk, and now Battlestar Galactica, are on at 10/9c on Friday. On top of that, they are the ONLY two shows I'm watching right now...
How did that happen?
First, start on a floor you know has access to this access point. Then, get in the elevator and hit the top floor. Note what floor you get disconnected on. Do the same going down, and average those numbers together and you have the floor it's on.
Once you are there, gather everyone around, and tell them that you know one of them has a wireless access point around. The first person to turn around and hurry away sneakily is your guy. Pull out your gun and shoot him in the back. Find his desk and everywhere he goes, and you'll eventually find the access point. Problem solved.
Or were you wanting to do this legally? Then I would just get them in a headlock and "nugey" them until they tell you where it is.
Ok...I feel nauseated now. Great. Maybe I'll go watch Blade Runner so I can watch real insight in a beautiful film. That'll make me feel better.
I was with you up to this statement...
Blade Runner wasn't really good either, IMHO. I've heard it's a classic and all that, but I just don't get it.
It seems like just a below par Sci-Fi film with Harrison Ford in it. I don't say this because it is "different" from most Sci-Fi films, my earlier recommendation of Brazil is different from every Sci-Fi film I know of, and it's probably my favorite movie.
Blade Runner just seemed to be empty to me, it seemed more like a sci-fi/noire film mixed together, and it didn't work for me. Dark City did a better job of that.
To each his own, I guess.
example: a lot of teenagers have mentioned to me how they hated 'napoleon dynamite' but people over 20 generally love it.
Maybe I'm in an isolated area of the world, but I don't know one person under 40 that has seen that movie that doesn't like it. That includes teenagers, and even 7 year olds.
I know a few people over 40 that don't like it, but I also know quite a few people in their mid 50s that love it as well.
I would actually say the majority of people I know that like it are in their teens.
Rather than paying attention to the beauty of the movie and the hard work those actors put in they were bored by long stretches of quiet time and scenes that required thought.
So, if people put a lot of work into a movie, it is automatically good?
I have to disagree. I saw AI, and it was not "beautiful". It was not only boring, but the story was horrible, and the scenes were dull. I even like the majority of what Kubrick puts out.
If you are wanting a strange, beautiful, weird, and strange movie, I would recommend Brazil or The Life Aquatic.
God help us all.
Which one?
Allah of course.
Oh, hey, look at that. The FBI are here... I'll see you guys later.
Quick way to fix the problem: hire whores for the boys with the good grades...
The boys with the good grades are probably smart enough not to want to have sex with STD ridden whores.
The art gallery analogy is just slightly flawed, sneaking in is more like showing people how to hack Valve's Steam engine to get free Half-Life 2.
;)).
The "copyright infringement" approach would be someone paying to get in, taking pictures of everything (with "no pictures" signs hanging up on the wall), and renting a building or something where they blow up their pictures to the actual size and make an exact copy of the art gallery and charging nothing for people to come in, without the same people that are actually IN the art gallery, only some of your friends (no network play, only LAN games
The whole purpose of these laws are not merely to compensate the 'victim', but to dissuade people commiting the offense in the first place.
Okay, then $50 (and maybe say $30 extra) for the game goes to the company, and the other "deterrent fee" goes to the government. None of this "I deserve $200k" bullshit from the companies.
If you think this is unfair to the businesses, making them less likely to take people to court, well, that's the case with all civil cases. My dad owned a car lot and still has people that owe money on their cars. They aren't paying and the only thing he can do is take them to court and get a court order to get them to pay, and when they don't, they get thrown in jail for disobeying the court. He's not going to do that though considering the thousands of dollars the lawyer would cost him, and the zero gain he will get out of it.