I seem to recall a few scenes in Snow Crash, that weren't exactly family friendly. I am not sure how they might translate on screen. You could cut them all out I suppose.
What I thought was funny the other day, is that I went to pay for something using my fancy chip embedded VISA card, and the vendor hands me the device, and I punch in my code and wait and this is what I see:....CONNECTING 2400
Seriously! WTF? The last 2400 baud modem I had was early 90's (it was in fact my FIRST modem).
As a funny aside (for answering my own thread) we had a picture of a girl in the hall of my University dorm on cork board, that read underneath something like "Friends don't like Friends drive to New York to meet girls they met on IRC..."
He should just be glad when they gained control of the network again that they didn't find his secret stash of mp3's! The RIAA would have sued him for 100x that!
So what you are saying that *maybe* the plant failed during the largest earthquake in recorded history, that was far beyond the building specifications that the plant was built to resist, rather than after when it got hit by the largest tidal wave in history? This is also the first time in history that this has happened.
I bet the plant wasn't built to resist a direct comet strike either.
That all said, you can bet any new plants will have much more rigorous earthquake building specifications which is a good thing.
I love how the significance of error for this is that on one side you can write of an entire article about the planet, its characteristics and features, and on the other side they argue the equivalent that the scientist blinked and nothing really exists.
In many online games, certain players can, lets say "detract" from other users gaming experience. Just like other gamers enhance some other gamers experience. Building in a model to promote one, and punish the other, seems like common sense, and can only make for better games.
However it would have to be done carefully, as it would be rife for exploitation. If some players want to go on and be total dicks, reducing others fun, well maybe they should pay more, and if others are helpful and positive increasing everyone's enjoyment, then they should likewise be rewarded.
This of course would only have to do with online games.
Shit like this always pisses me off. Do the math. Your paying your developer like 75k+. A second monitor costs 200$... and if it is on lease, over 4 years, so like 50$ a year. So if you get 1% more productivity, it was probably the best investment you made that day other than putting pants on. Hell even if it makes the developer slightly happy, it was worth it. Stop being a bunch of penny pincher douchbags. I understand cutting costs, but at a certain point what is being done will only have negative effect.
You can probably describe the same thing in TV poker. Everyone watching can see all the players hands, and can see a train wreak coming. Players also like to think how they would react to the same plays given the amount of information.
I own the game, but play rarely, mostly because I suck.
What I don't get, or what I think is a problem is that we are subsidizing these isotopes for the rest of the world.
Can someone tell me if these are so important and necessary, why is it there are only like 3 plants operating in the entire world? Why is Chalk River which was build in the 60's still operational with no plan in the future? Why are new ones not being built?
When Chalk River went down, it was a "pretty big deal" worldwide. Why is this? Are Canadian's losing money and risking our lands and lives for others because of this, as despite being awfully noble, it isn't exactly fair.
Couldn't agree more. The summary has some of the stupidest advice ever. Buy what means most, and is not easily expandable. CPU. Video Card (if you want one). The rest, Hard Drives, RAM, etc... can all be added to later on, not to mention the fact the longer you wait for these things the cheaper they will be. Also you main interface with your computer is your peepers. Get a decent monitor. Also one will notice that Intel has a nasty habit of changing the bloody socket every year, making upgrades pretty much impossible down the road (or at least less useful). Stuff like RAM, HD, Cable standards, change less frequently, and usually there is a "transition" phase where you can use both for awhile.
Nope. They want their cake and eat it too. Introducing new "levies" or taxes has nothing to do with not suing people. If they could, they would. They only reason they cannot, is our legal system isn't quite as loopy as the one in the US, specifically in crazy places like Texas. Our privacy laws are much stronger as well, making it difficult for the lawyers to get at names easily (in the US, they just sue John Does). This hasn't stopped the industry from trying to introduce new copyright into Canada that would do exactly that. In fact that Copyright bill has probably been introduced (and defeated) more than any other bill. However now that the conservatives have a majority, you can bet that is now coming. Also if you think after the bill makes everything illegal, and the industry starts bringing everyone into court, that those taxes and levies will disappear you are smoking the good stuff. Why do you think the conservatives want all those new prisons? It's to hold all the copyright evildoers.:)
Anyway hopefully the Conservatives will remember how big the Internet and consumer price gouging became an issue during the election, though I am not holding my breath. More likely they will introduce it quickly (in the next 6months) so that by the time election time comes around again in 4 years, everyone will forget about it. Of course that is assuming we still have elections in 4 years....
and say that Sony is going to argue that since their network is a free service, that the user never paid for, that its disruption will not have caused users any undue fiscal harm, and thus they don't feel obligated to reimburse users one red cent...
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Yes but reading those emails is like looking directly at the sun... with your brain.
Its a public service really keeping them from the light of day...
I seem to recall a few scenes in Snow Crash, that weren't exactly family friendly. I am not sure how they might translate on screen. You could cut them all out I suppose.
Seriously, where did homeless come from all of a sudden?
It sounds exactly like human screaming. Odd that.
"I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down"
ya been there done that.
What I thought was funny the other day, is that I went to pay for something using my fancy chip embedded VISA card, and the vendor hands me the device, and I punch in my code and wait and this is what I see: ....CONNECTING 2400
Seriously! WTF? The last 2400 baud modem I had was early 90's (it was in fact my FIRST modem).
Oops, ya Ontario, Canada here also.
As a funny aside (for answering my own thread) we had a picture of a girl in the hall of my University dorm on cork board, that read underneath something like "Friends don't like Friends drive to New York to meet girls they met on IRC..."
Agreed.
As someone who went to University (in CS) in 1995, AIM was retarded.
IRC, ICQ/MSN, Myspace, Facebook...
For those too young to remember, and cry about Facebook.... IRC got pretty weird sometimes.
He should just be glad when they gained control of the network again that they didn't find his secret stash of mp3's! The RIAA would have sued him for 100x that!
So what you are saying that *maybe* the plant failed during the largest earthquake in recorded history, that was far beyond the building specifications that the plant was built to resist, rather than after when it got hit by the largest tidal wave in history? This is also the first time in history that this has happened.
I bet the plant wasn't built to resist a direct comet strike either.
That all said, you can bet any new plants will have much more rigorous earthquake building specifications which is a good thing.
I love how the significance of error for this is that on one side you can write of an entire article about the planet, its characteristics and features, and on the other side they argue the equivalent that the scientist blinked and nothing really exists.
How can you say that when there was a rebel base on Hoth? Next your going to tell me that was all just rebel propaganda!
In many online games, certain players can, lets say "detract" from other users gaming experience. Just like other gamers enhance some other gamers experience. Building in a model to promote one, and punish the other, seems like common sense, and can only make for better games.
However it would have to be done carefully, as it would be rife for exploitation. If some players want to go on and be total dicks, reducing others fun, well maybe they should pay more, and if others are helpful and positive increasing everyone's enjoyment, then they should likewise be rewarded.
This of course would only have to do with online games.
Someone hates America and Freedom...
Now we just have to get 10:1 women to men ratio to ensure sammiches in the future.
Shit like this always pisses me off. Do the math. Your paying your developer like 75k+. A second monitor costs 200$... and if it is on lease, over 4 years, so like 50$ a year. So if you get 1% more productivity, it was probably the best investment you made that day other than putting pants on. Hell even if it makes the developer slightly happy, it was worth it. Stop being a bunch of penny pincher douchbags. I understand cutting costs, but at a certain point what is being done will only have negative effect.
6,341,950 PS3 Units Sold in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3#Sales_and_production_costs
Say the average PS3 uses 110W as typical power consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_hardware
= 700 Million Watts.
= 700 Megawatts.
All those PS3's turned off is saving a lot of electricity!
Yes I am aware of the obscene amount of over simplification.
You can probably describe the same thing in TV poker. Everyone watching can see all the players hands, and can see a train wreak coming. Players also like to think how they would react to the same plays given the amount of information.
I own the game, but play rarely, mostly because I suck.
Now hand me a 'nuther beer. *hic*
So exactly like "King of Queens" then.
What I don't get, or what I think is a problem is that we are subsidizing these isotopes for the rest of the world.
Can someone tell me if these are so important and necessary, why is it there are only like 3 plants operating in the entire world? Why is Chalk River which was build in the 60's still operational with no plan in the future? Why are new ones not being built?
When Chalk River went down, it was a "pretty big deal" worldwide. Why is this? Are Canadian's losing money and risking our lands and lives for others because of this, as despite being awfully noble, it isn't exactly fair.
Anyway I think the whole situation is a bit odd.
Couldn't agree more. The summary has some of the stupidest advice ever. Buy what means most, and is not easily expandable. CPU. Video Card (if you want one). The rest, Hard Drives, RAM, etc... can all be added to later on, not to mention the fact the longer you wait for these things the cheaper they will be. Also you main interface with your computer is your peepers. Get a decent monitor. Also one will notice that Intel has a nasty habit of changing the bloody socket every year, making upgrades pretty much impossible down the road (or at least less useful). Stuff like RAM, HD, Cable standards, change less frequently, and usually there is a "transition" phase where you can use both for awhile.
Nope. They want their cake and eat it too. Introducing new "levies" or taxes has nothing to do with not suing people. If they could, they would. They only reason they cannot, is our legal system isn't quite as loopy as the one in the US, specifically in crazy places like Texas. Our privacy laws are much stronger as well, making it difficult for the lawyers to get at names easily (in the US, they just sue John Does). This hasn't stopped the industry from trying to introduce new copyright into Canada that would do exactly that. In fact that Copyright bill has probably been introduced (and defeated) more than any other bill. However now that the conservatives have a majority, you can bet that is now coming. Also if you think after the bill makes everything illegal, and the industry starts bringing everyone into court, that those taxes and levies will disappear you are smoking the good stuff. Why do you think the conservatives want all those new prisons? It's to hold all the copyright evildoers. :)
Anyway hopefully the Conservatives will remember how big the Internet and consumer price gouging became an issue during the election, though I am not holding my breath. More likely they will introduce it quickly (in the next 6months) so that by the time election time comes around again in 4 years, everyone will forget about it. Of course that is assuming we still have elections in 4 years....
To be fair we are talking a Canadian education system not American... :)
and say that Sony is going to argue that since their network is a free service, that the user never paid for, that its disruption will not have caused users any undue fiscal harm, and thus they don't feel obligated to reimburse users one red cent...