I remember a few years ago a story about parents being charged with their young daughter's death becuase she died from the "Water Diet" they had her on.
Metal in a microwave is not nearly as danjourous as they make it sound. Sure put steelwool in it and you get hellfire, but if you forget and leave a metal spoon in your coffee it won't do any damage if its just for 15sec.
Wow don't realy think you should have been modded -2 flamebait. They call it an Iphone so I think its reasonable to compare its size to other phones. It's not like the poster called it a HUGE piece of crap or anything. Me thinks theirs a few Apple zealots with some mod points to spare.
I have to disagree slightly. Looking ahead 10,000 years into our future I could easily see us creating a craft capable of Interstellar flight. And looking back at the past 10,000 years I doubt we'll have lost our taste for war and death in the next 10,000. So I could beleive that their is life out there in the universe that can travel from one star to another, and still want to make war with beings that arn't like they are.
Everyones making cracks about Fords age, but with Lucus' love of epensive speacial effects I could see him using the de-aging effects used in Xmen3 to youthen Ford up through the whole movie. And use the facial maping effects used in Star Wars 1-3 to map Fords face onto doubles for any strenuous parts.
Ford could easilly play a youthful Indy well into his old age it would just increase the SFX budget. Hell eventually you could have a completley lifelike computer generated Indiana Jones that Ford just does the voice work for.
"Please stop posting Wired stories. We all already read Wired on a daily basis, just like we read Slashdot. Why post it here days after we've already read it? Just please stop doing it already."
First people complain about the Ford story becuase it isn't tech nerd related and doesn't belong on slashdot, now people complain about tech stories becuase were all nerds here and have already read every tech news article before they apear on slashdot. So what would you have people post?
Certain news items trancend news genres. On Sep 11th their were lots of news stories on Slashdot about it, even though the stories weren't nessessarly tech related. Basiclly anything a nerd would be interested in knowing is news for nerds. And most US nerds would be interested in the Death of a former president. Heck I'm sure theres a few political science nerds on slashdot.
It looks fantastic very detailed and relistic rendering, but the gameplay and response are crap, the controls just felt realy slugish Maybe I'm just used to more arcade style mechanics but I realy didn't like the demo that much.
If your going to use that example Dinosaurs existed for millions of years, where's the astroid hitting the game industry that requires such a huge shift in controller technology. What I'm saying is change for changes sake ussually ends in failure. Nintendo is like the goth kid that wears black becuase he wants to be diffent than everyone else and to stand out, but ends up just looking like a dork with black nail polish on.
Makes yah wonder about all those dateline stings. If the guy wasn't talking to a real 13 year old then how is he being charged for a crime. I'm no law expert but apperently it all has to do with intent. If you intended to kill a real dear out of season then your busted.
Not to mentention the fact that many Native Americans would consider the founding fathers of the USA to be mass murderers. Its hard to found a new country when most places on the globe have already been inhabbited to some extent for the past 10,000 odd years. It ussually means you'll have to displace or delete the previous inhabitants.
And whats wrong with being like ever other game system. Game systems have evolved to the point their at for a reason. Should we all just spontansioullly evolve a third arm with seven fingers on it just becuase its new and might be useful in some situtations. Its taken game system developers years to find the perfect balance. The controller (Which is the only unique thing about the wii) has evolved over the years to meet the needs of the widest area of game types, and I think the current format used by Microsoft & Sony while not perfect is a lot better general use controller. Ninentdos contoller is fun for certain types of games speciifically designed for it, but I think its going to end up being an annoance for most games in the long run.
You don't have to imagine just look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_ Hensel just saw them on TV last night their 16 now and pretty healthy except for some back problems. Their not monsterous looking in fact their fairly cute looking girl(s)
I totally disagree with number 7. I work for a bank in the IT department. I know for a fact that we lose $5.00 a month for every customer who we give Internet banking and Free Bill pay to. We sure as hell don't make that back with the $350 dollars thay have deposited in their account. Banks give you tones of free services that the bank has to pay for and then you complain about it. A bank loses money on a great number of its customers and their ussually the ones we get complaints from.
The trouble with using accuall batteries in electric cars is the time it takes for a recharge cycle. If your driving from new New York to Detroit and you have to stop to refuel you don't want to have to wait 6 hours at the "gas" station for your car to recharge. While with a hydrogen fuel cell it would only take about as long to refuel as it does now.
"It's easier for the end user to replace a broken standalone game console, standalone CD player, or standalone DVD player than the optical drive built into the computer."
I've been a Systems Admin for 10 years and I've never once had to replace a Optical Drive in a computer, and its a heck of allot cheaper to replace a CD/DVD rom in a computer than to go replaceing your game console.
"Enough Slashdot users boycott games that lack a working no-CD crack that can be applied to a full installation from original media."
so I should not play any games becuase the evil game companies make me put a CD in my system to play them. I've had to do that for years on consoles and its never been an inconvenience to me.
"That can be done at home on a desktop. The momentary inability to do so is a "minor inconvenience"."
So we weren't talking about systems in general, you would have an optical drive in home system when did this become part of the conversation. The qualifier that we were talking about a non-home desktop never came up before so why use it now. And I don't think work would look kindly on me riping MP3's at home and emailing them to myself at work.
or DVD's
"Play? It's a "minor inconvenience" to be without a feature film. Rip? Slashdot is hosted in the United States, and you can't rip DVDs in the United States."
Everythings a minor inconvenience to you, but computers were never ment to be a major convenience. Indoor plumbing is a major convenience, computers just provide a lot of minor conveniences so if you take them all away like your doing then the computer has no purpose at all.
Don't play many copy protected games then I assume, or play/rip audio disks or DVD's, I guess I'm not the norm but theres a disk in my optical drive most of the time.
LOL thanks for rescuing me from the scary Iraqi's please save me from the evil Canadians too. You've never saved me from anything buddy so get off your high horse.
Protecting me from what dumbass, IRAQ. Iraq was absolutley no threat to the United States. And our actions in Iraq are only making the world more dagourous for me and everyone else. If Iraq had acctually attcked us things would be differnet, but they didn't we just decided to invade them with some madeup crap about WMD. I don't need the huge military we have to protect me. In WW2 we went from having a reletivtily small military complex to the most powerfull military in the world in a few years time. I have a secret to tell you, NO COUNTRY IS GOING TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES so we realy don't need the huge military we have, thats why the goverment starts wars like Iraq to justifiy the militaries existance. You arn't protecting my freedoms buddy, your grandfater was in WW2 but your just screwing up the world in Iraq right now.
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I remember a few years ago a story about parents being charged with their young daughter's death becuase she died from the "Water Diet" they had her on.
Metal in a microwave is not nearly as danjourous as they make it sound. Sure put steelwool in it and you get hellfire, but if you forget and leave a metal spoon in your coffee it won't do any damage if its just for 15sec.
Just pop your loose change in the microwave for 15sec problem solved ...
Wow don't realy think you should have been modded -2 flamebait. They call it an Iphone so I think its reasonable to compare its size to other phones. It's not like the poster called it a HUGE piece of crap or anything. Me thinks theirs a few Apple zealots with some mod points to spare.
Were all just robot dogs programmed by our genes and sensor input from our inviroment. Nothing more magical about us then any other analytical device.
Humans are just robot dogs that have been programmed by their genes and their enviroment.
I have to disagree slightly. Looking ahead 10,000 years into our future I could easily see us creating a craft capable of Interstellar flight. And looking back at the past 10,000 years I doubt we'll have lost our taste for war and death in the next 10,000. So I could beleive that their is life out there in the universe that can travel from one star to another, and still want to make war with beings that arn't like they are.
Ford could easilly play a youthful Indy well into his old age it would just increase the SFX budget. Hell eventually you could have a completley lifelike computer generated Indiana Jones that Ford just does the voice work for.
First people complain about the Ford story becuase it isn't tech nerd related and doesn't belong on slashdot, now people complain about tech stories becuase were all nerds here and have already read every tech news article before they apear on slashdot. So what would you have people post?
Certain news items trancend news genres. On Sep 11th their were lots of news stories on Slashdot about it, even though the stories weren't nessessarly tech related. Basiclly anything a nerd would be interested in knowing is news for nerds. And most US nerds would be interested in the Death of a former president. Heck I'm sure theres a few political science nerds on slashdot.
No crash effects in this game, I rammed my car into a railing at top speed and it just came to a stop.
It looks fantastic very detailed and relistic rendering, but the gameplay and response are crap, the controls just felt realy slugish Maybe I'm just used to more arcade style mechanics but I realy didn't like the demo that much.
If your going to use that example Dinosaurs existed for millions of years, where's the astroid hitting the game industry that requires such a huge shift in controller technology. What I'm saying is change for changes sake ussually ends in failure. Nintendo is like the goth kid that wears black becuase he wants to be diffent than everyone else and to stand out, but ends up just looking like a dork with black nail polish on.
Makes yah wonder about all those dateline stings. If the guy wasn't talking to a real 13 year old then how is he being charged for a crime. I'm no law expert but apperently it all has to do with intent. If you intended to kill a real dear out of season then your busted.
Not to mentention the fact that many Native Americans would consider the founding fathers of the USA to be mass murderers. Its hard to found a new country when most places on the globe have already been inhabbited to some extent for the past 10,000 odd years. It ussually means you'll have to displace or delete the previous inhabitants.
And whats wrong with being like ever other game system. Game systems have evolved to the point their at for a reason. Should we all just spontansioullly evolve a third arm with seven fingers on it just becuase its new and might be useful in some situtations. Its taken game system developers years to find the perfect balance. The controller (Which is the only unique thing about the wii) has evolved over the years to meet the needs of the widest area of game types, and I think the current format used by Microsoft & Sony while not perfect is a lot better general use controller. Ninentdos contoller is fun for certain types of games speciifically designed for it, but I think its going to end up being an annoance for most games in the long run.
You don't have to imagine just look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_ Hensel just saw them on TV last night their 16 now and pretty healthy except for some back problems. Their not monsterous looking in fact their fairly cute looking girl(s)
I totally disagree with number 7. I work for a bank in the IT department. I know for a fact that we lose $5.00 a month for every customer who we give Internet banking and Free Bill pay to. We sure as hell don't make that back with the $350 dollars thay have deposited in their account. Banks give you tones of free services that the bank has to pay for and then you complain about it. A bank loses money on a great number of its customers and their ussually the ones we get complaints from.
The trouble with using accuall batteries in electric cars is the time it takes for a recharge cycle. If your driving from new New York to Detroit and you have to stop to refuel you don't want to have to wait 6 hours at the "gas" station for your car to recharge. While with a hydrogen fuel cell it would only take about as long to refuel as it does now.
I've been a Systems Admin for 10 years and I've never once had to replace a Optical Drive in a computer, and its a heck of allot cheaper to replace a CD/DVD rom in a computer than to go replaceing your game console.
"Enough Slashdot users boycott games that lack a working no-CD crack that can be applied to a full installation from original media." so I should not play any games becuase the evil game companies make me put a CD in my system to play them. I've had to do that for years on consoles and its never been an inconvenience to me. "That can be done at home on a desktop. The momentary inability to do so is a "minor inconvenience"." So we weren't talking about systems in general, you would have an optical drive in home system when did this become part of the conversation. The qualifier that we were talking about a non-home desktop never came up before so why use it now. And I don't think work would look kindly on me riping MP3's at home and emailing them to myself at work. or DVD's "Play? It's a "minor inconvenience" to be without a feature film. Rip? Slashdot is hosted in the United States, and you can't rip DVDs in the United States." Everythings a minor inconvenience to you, but computers were never ment to be a major convenience. Indoor plumbing is a major convenience, computers just provide a lot of minor conveniences so if you take them all away like your doing then the computer has no purpose at all.
Don't play many copy protected games then I assume, or play/rip audio disks or DVD's, I guess I'm not the norm but theres a disk in my optical drive most of the time.
So you don't have a dvd/cd rom in your computer?
LOL thanks for rescuing me from the scary Iraqi's please save me from the evil Canadians too. You've never saved me from anything buddy so get off your high horse.
Protecting me from what dumbass, IRAQ. Iraq was absolutley no threat to the United States. And our actions in Iraq are only making the world more dagourous for me and everyone else. If Iraq had acctually attcked us things would be differnet, but they didn't we just decided to invade them with some madeup crap about WMD. I don't need the huge military we have to protect me. In WW2 we went from having a reletivtily small military complex to the most powerfull military in the world in a few years time. I have a secret to tell you, NO COUNTRY IS GOING TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES so we realy don't need the huge military we have, thats why the goverment starts wars like Iraq to justifiy the militaries existance. You arn't protecting my freedoms buddy, your grandfater was in WW2 but your just screwing up the world in Iraq right now.