I live near Seattle, and everytime something goes wrong with our connection, I pine for the days of nocharge.com. Free dialup access for anyone who wanted it, and they encouraged you to leave it on 24/7. I could run an ftp server on my computer, I could connect my laptop on their local line from any of my friends' places and pull things off of it if I needed to...it was glorious.
Traffic started getting bad as more people found it, then one day it just stopped working for me, and everyone else I knew who used it. I tested it now and then for about a year, but it never worked again. Their site is still up, but I haven't tried in quite a while.
They claim to offer service in the "Northwest and New England" now.
They did seem to have a lot of service flickers, and they changed their username/password setup a lot. I always suspected it was because they made all their money through their 10 dollar tech support fee.
"those spinning metal things you can control with the gravity gun"
Dude, those things all have little levers that turn them on and spin them up proper.
The worst loadpoint I've seen in the game is a stairwell later on. I was being shot at from above, and decided to sprint up and solve the problem. Up I went, shotgun in hand, and pulled the trigger. The thug's head jerked backwards, blood hit the wall, and the game stopped in its tracks and started loading before the body even hit the wall.
My copy has been stuttering like crazy, but I'd assumed it was because my computer sucks the butt... I figured it was doing it every time it loaded textures for a new zone or character, partly because my card only has 64 Mb. I turned textures to low and it seemed to help quite a bit, although I did miss the prettiness.
Even on low though, it stil stutters now and then. When the settings are maxed, I've had it freeze and repeat the audio for up to ten seconds at least twice, but usually it isn't that bad.
Poor little machine. *pats his computer reassuringly*
Everytime my friend starts talking about the Disney show Tailspin, I wind up saying Talon Kaarde instead of Don Carnage. I prefer to attribute this to the power and beauty of Zahn's writing, instead of the fact that I'm a big fucking dork with bad memory.
Using Zahn's trilogy would be the only way to catch my attention. I read six or seven books past the movies when I was younger and less discriminating, but Zahn was actually good.
Ocne I reached "Children of the Jedi" I started coughing up blood. I have no recollection of my actions after that point, and no one can prove otherwise.
"I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principal of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval procedures used in their interrogations."
I did about the same thing. We had a typing class in elementary school, with poorly thought out software. Our teacher wasn't very attentive, so I wound up memorizing the four paragraph final tests, and using the same glancey-pecky style I've used since I got my hands on a Mac SE at eight years old.
I do wish for mad touch typing skizzles from time to time, mainly while I'm copying from paper to screen, or doing well made typing tests. But most of the typing I do is creative, and then I have no trouble going long stretches at high speeds.
Well, that's not so much tacking into the sun as it is allowing yourself to fall into the sun. Decreasing angular momentum = shrinking orbit. But it is a far better idea than falling into the sin -without- a giant shiny parachute.
The goal of the project is to extend life and the enjoyment of life far beyond what diet and exercise could match. Should you eat right and stay fit? Of course you should, otherwise you're going to spend two hundred years complaining about your gut and how quickly you get winded, instead of spending two hundred and fifty years playing tennis and feeling fresh.
It's just a little friendly hacking to combat planned obsolescence, and the result doesn't include the fantastically horrific drawbacks The Twilight Zone always tries to rub your nose in. You can die when you want to, and the people you love can live as long as you do.
I wish people would stop trying to silence computer fans. I can't sleep -without- them. A humming computer lets me know the world is right, and good, and that it's safe to close my eyes.
I am the biggest Linux noob on the face of the planet. *shame*
That being said, I've completely given up on ever installing drivers for my graphics card. NVidia seems to have special instructions for SuSE users, which is disturbing in itself. After gimping it up for a while I actually installed the source stuff like I should have in the first place (I did an FTP install), and it still doesn't work.
I think I found a few forums talkinga bout the same problem, and one of them seemed to solve it, but with strange methods that were beyond my ken.
I suppose I should actually bother to learn Linux, but everytime I open the console I black out, and wake up five hours later choking on my own tongue. Is that normal for a first time user?
Picture two scientists in a lab, one of them juggling three golfballs. The other one says, "You know, if you drop those the explosion will be equivalent to thirty tons of TNT. So the first one stops juggling the damn golfballs. Even if you yourself aren't planning on turning something intoa weapon, it's GOOD to discuss its capabilities, and it's GOOD to let the PUBLIC know about them, so there can be discussion about whether it should be developed at all, and if so, in what direction, how closely guarded, and near whose residential district.
People whose jobs revolve around kiling other people will figure out what explodes and what doesn't, even if you pretend it's a strictly power-generating technology, or could only be used for rocket engines, or gopher hunting. I'd rather the public have potentially dangerous information, because the alternative is even more threatening.
Slashdot Mirror
Try to make people snort soda.
1000 Blank White Cards
I live near Seattle, and everytime something goes wrong with our connection, I pine for the days of nocharge.com. Free dialup access for anyone who wanted it, and they encouraged you to leave it on 24/7. I could run an ftp server on my computer, I could connect my laptop on their local line from any of my friends' places and pull things off of it if I needed to...it was glorious.
Traffic started getting bad as more people found it, then one day it just stopped working for me, and everyone else I knew who used it. I tested it now and then for about a year, but it never worked again. Their site is still up, but I haven't tried in quite a while.
They claim to offer service in the "Northwest and New England" now.
They did seem to have a lot of service flickers, and they changed their username/password setup a lot. I always suspected it was because they made all their money through their 10 dollar tech support fee.
"those spinning metal things you can control with the gravity gun" Dude, those things all have little levers that turn them on and spin them up proper. The worst loadpoint I've seen in the game is a stairwell later on. I was being shot at from above, and decided to sprint up and solve the problem. Up I went, shotgun in hand, and pulled the trigger. The thug's head jerked backwards, blood hit the wall, and the game stopped in its tracks and started loading before the body even hit the wall. My copy has been stuttering like crazy, but I'd assumed it was because my computer sucks the butt... I figured it was doing it every time it loaded textures for a new zone or character, partly because my card only has 64 Mb. I turned textures to low and it seemed to help quite a bit, although I did miss the prettiness. Even on low though, it stil stutters now and then. When the settings are maxed, I've had it freeze and repeat the audio for up to ten seconds at least twice, but usually it isn't that bad. Poor little machine. *pats his computer reassuringly*
Those Clowns In Congress Have Done It Again. What A Bunch Of Clowns.
Everytime my friend starts talking about the Disney show Tailspin, I wind up saying Talon Kaarde instead of Don Carnage. I prefer to attribute this to the power and beauty of Zahn's writing, instead of the fact that I'm a big fucking dork with bad memory.
Using Zahn's trilogy would be the only way to catch my attention. I read six or seven books past the movies when I was younger and less discriminating, but Zahn was actually good.
Ocne I reached "Children of the Jedi" I started coughing up blood. I have no recollection of my actions after that point, and no one can prove otherwise.
I think once the first human player goes, the rest will quickly follow on stretchers...
"I understand this concern on behalf of the taxpayers. People want value for money. That's why we always insist on the principal of Information Retrieval charges. It's absolutely right and fair that those found guilty should pay for their periods of detention and the Information Retrieval procedures used in their interrogations."
I did about the same thing. We had a typing class in elementary school, with poorly thought out software. Our teacher wasn't very attentive, so I wound up memorizing the four paragraph final tests, and using the same glancey-pecky style I've used since I got my hands on a Mac SE at eight years old.
I do wish for mad touch typing skizzles from time to time, mainly while I'm copying from paper to screen, or doing well made typing tests. But most of the typing I do is creative, and then I have no trouble going long stretches at high speeds.
Well, that's not so much tacking into the sun as it is allowing yourself to fall into the sun. Decreasing angular momentum = shrinking orbit. But it is a far better idea than falling into the sin -without- a giant shiny parachute.
The Gripping hand
I can't tell if they were terrible books, or great books, but either way I really enjoyed them.
2. ?
I claim this post in the name of France!
Is IQ 100 the mean or median? Maybe we're all at 99, and Marilyn vos Savant is propping us up.
Universal Remonster
The goal of the project is to extend life and the enjoyment of life far beyond what diet and exercise could match. Should you eat right and stay fit? Of course you should, otherwise you're going to spend two hundred years complaining about your gut and how quickly you get winded, instead of spending two hundred and fifty years playing tennis and feeling fresh.
It's just a little friendly hacking to combat planned obsolescence, and the result doesn't include the fantastically horrific drawbacks The Twilight Zone always tries to rub your nose in. You can die when you want to, and the people you love can live as long as you do.
It's delayed until they perfect the Duke Nukem Scent Cartridge.
I wish people would stop trying to silence computer fans. I can't sleep -without- them. A humming computer lets me know the world is right, and good, and that it's safe to close my eyes.
You can see how our friends in Soviet Russia might be confused by this saying.
*clicks 1*
YaST didn't bang it up the ass properly.
I am the biggest Linux noob on the face of the planet. *shame*
That being said, I've completely given up on ever installing drivers for my graphics card. NVidia seems to have special instructions for SuSE users, which is disturbing in itself. After gimping it up for a while I actually installed the source stuff like I should have in the first place (I did an FTP install), and it still doesn't work.
I think I found a few forums talkinga bout the same problem, and one of them seemed to solve it, but with strange methods that were beyond my ken.
I suppose I should actually bother to learn Linux, but everytime I open the console I black out, and wake up five hours later choking on my own tongue. Is that normal for a first time user?
Picture two scientists in a lab, one of them juggling three golfballs. The other one says, "You know, if you drop those the explosion will be equivalent to thirty tons of TNT. So the first one stops juggling the damn golfballs. Even if you yourself aren't planning on turning something intoa weapon, it's GOOD to discuss its capabilities, and it's GOOD to let the PUBLIC know about them, so there can be discussion about whether it should be developed at all, and if so, in what direction, how closely guarded, and near whose residential district.
People whose jobs revolve around kiling other people will figure out what explodes and what doesn't, even if you pretend it's a strictly power-generating technology, or could only be used for rocket engines, or gopher hunting. I'd rather the public have potentially dangerous information, because the alternative is even more threatening.
We'll all be rich! Rich as Nazis!
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!