I can't believe the mothership had an open access point. Stupid aliens.
It's simple.. The aliens captured several human males in order to obtain intel required to quickly destroy all resistance on earth. However after seeing how worthless torture was in gaining this itel they resorted to bribes. With one IT guy they nabbed they gave him access to the internet which he used a P2P network to gain access to the entire collection of porn on the internet. Well, well all know Kazaa has spyware and was compromised.
Secondly, I just don't see why anyone would want an adventure game on a console. PC games are always cheaper, the system requirements on that kind of game are generally low enough to not cause a problem even to the upgrade-shy, and you get a high resolution picture AND a quality pointing device (consoles only offer 1 at most of these).
For anyone who doesn't have windows it's always nice to have a game you'd be really interested in playing work on your console so you don't have to futz with wine in the hopes that you can even get the damn thing to work. The nice thing about the Wii is that pretty much any adventure game that used a mouse is going to be virtually identical (interface wise) to it's PC counterpart because of the Wii remote.
I am planning on buying the new Sam & Max episodes but if they are going to be ported to the Wii I'd purchase them instead.
|| All secret ballots are doing here is making it easier to steal elections and harder to catch the people who do it.
| What a silly argument. You confuse closed voting with closed voting machines.
| If the voting machines were open but anonymizing each vote, everything would be fine and dandy. So the proper way is to fix the voting machines, not to open the voting process.
| Geez, the stupidity. Sometimes one thinks you deserve the government you have.
You can't have an anonymous vote and be protected at all times. Somebody will find a way to abuse it. The only way you can be ensured accuracy is by validating your data.
Why do people care so much if somebody else knows who you vote for?
Why not impliment a system where you can verify your vote?! Better yet in the process of verifying your vote it also asks you to consult with several people who live in your neighborhood to validate their vote as well. Something as simple as this pleaes ask this person at this address if they have validated their vote Y/N? You don't need to know whot hey voted for just that they checked their vote was recorded acurrately.
That way not only can you know your vote was recorded accurately but there are things put in place to assure you that nobody is creating "fake votes" off people that don't really exist (or no longer exist)
Worst digital cable menus ever.. Incredibly slow to display (page up/down) that is littered with ads that take up abit more than half the screen so you can only see about an hour total per channel. When the box needs to be rebooted it can take anywhere from 1-30mins to restore the TV guide data.
The on demand service doesn't let you stop (or pause for extended periods) w/o having to renavigate the entire on demand menus to select the program again in order to resume what you were watching. It frequently says "Please try again in 5mins" when attempting to watch any on demand and they are incredibly slow at getting new on demand content up. For example HBO on demand shows sometimes take an entire week to put up while my parents w/ Timer Warner have their stuff up the minute the program ends.
The internet upstream for the most expensive (3mb down which you will never get closed to seeing) service is still capped at 128kbps
SED (Surface-conducting Electron-emmitting Display) has the potential to beat both.
They'll have 10,000:1 (100,000:1 possible) contract ratios and 1ms responce speeds and 1/3 the power consumption as plasma.. From what I read it's pretty similar to a CRT except it has the ability to be as slim as a LCD/Plasma.
Zelda Wii will support 16:9 widescreen, since the hardware will be able to render more of the playing area without crippling the framrate.
The gamecube can support 16:9 as well rgiht? I'm pretty sure I've seen options in some GC games to enable widescreen.. So I assume the GC ver will also support 16:9
so which version should I get? Is nintendo hoping I purchase both by not allowing GC controllers (since we already know you can plug a GC controller into the Wii) to work w/ the Wii ver?
If the Wii has any additional gameplay elements or improved graphics/sound I would say no question get the Wii ver.. However if it's exactly the same I'd lean towards the GC ver. My logic behind this is that the core of the games controllers were designed first and formost w/ the GC controller in mind.
I really hope we get the specifics on the differences (if any) soon so I can ensure I have the new Zelda on release day
I attempted to run it with 0.9.17 and was unable to get the game to run. I attempted to use the non fullscreen mode as well and it still failed on start. I got sound but no video just an empty window. If anyone does get it to run let me know how.
A secondary lock.. I mean if it doesn't prompt you "Please knock your PW now" who'd know why the system doesn't come up after entering a valid username/password.
Or maybe you could just have various aspects of your desktop hidden unless you knock a specific pattern.
I thought the minimum number of posts for another article appearing the very next day is 800 posts. I guess someone is desperate for click through traffic.
Obviously the editor has a strong premonition the other 400 were on the way!
The idea that a person can perform complex calculations to form conclusions based on probability in the subconscience where the outcome feels like a "gut feeling" or "intuition".
Consider how the average person would treat a Sherlock Holmes type person's ability to solve a crime where others fail if he didn't explain his logic. Now let's go a step further and say even he didn't understand how he came to the conclusion he did. Say he just "felt it" and that all the logic was processed in his subconsciene and he was made to believe he solved the crime by some mystic ability. How many times have you gone on a gut feeling but weren't actually aware of what caused you to come to your conclusion?
Slashdot Mirror
How does it print something like a mug where the handle doesn't loop completely back onto itself?
In the video it prints "up".. So do you simply have to print the mug and handle separately and then attach the two objects together?
If I was Microsoft Id
buy up all 400k units shipped to the US? Sounds like a good idea
I recently stumbled across his book God's Debris (Free PDF file) at http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsd ebris.pdf. I'm not real a big fan of Dilbert and only read a handful of the comics but this book is very interesting.
I can't believe the mothership had an open access point. Stupid aliens.
It's simple.. The aliens captured several human males in order to obtain intel required to quickly destroy all resistance on earth. However after seeing how worthless torture was in gaining this itel they resorted to bribes. With one IT guy they nabbed they gave him access to the internet which he used a P2P network to gain access to the entire collection of porn on the internet. Well, well all know Kazaa has spyware and was compromised.
This is how they were able to upload the virus.
Secondly, I just don't see why anyone would want an adventure game on a console. PC games are always cheaper, the system requirements on that kind of game are generally low enough to not cause a problem even to the upgrade-shy, and you get a high resolution picture AND a quality pointing device (consoles only offer 1 at most of these).
For anyone who doesn't have windows it's always nice to have a game you'd be really interested in playing work on your console so you don't have to futz with wine in the hopes that you can even get the damn thing to work. The nice thing about the Wii is that pretty much any adventure game that used a mouse is going to be virtually identical (interface wise) to it's PC counterpart because of the Wii remote.
I am planning on buying the new Sam & Max episodes but if they are going to be ported to the Wii I'd purchase them instead.
That's a pretty good idea.. Hackers unite to rig the next election to prove it's possible.
www.hackthevote.com
|| All secret ballots are doing here is making it easier to steal elections and harder to catch the people who do it.
| What a silly argument. You confuse closed voting with closed voting machines.
| If the voting machines were open but anonymizing each vote, everything would be fine and dandy. So the proper way is to fix the voting machines, not to open the voting process.
| Geez, the stupidity. Sometimes one thinks you deserve the government you have.
You can't have an anonymous vote and be protected at all times. Somebody will find a way to abuse it. The only way you can be ensured accuracy is by validating your data.
Why do people care so much if somebody else knows who you vote for?
Why not impliment a system where you can verify your vote?! Better yet in the process of verifying your vote it also asks you to consult with several people who live in your neighborhood to validate their vote as well. Something as simple as this pleaes ask this person at this address if they have validated their vote Y/N? You don't need to know whot hey voted for just that they checked their vote was recorded acurrately.
That way not only can you know your vote was recorded accurately but there are things put in place to assure you that nobody is creating "fake votes" off people that don't really exist (or no longer exist)
Worst digital cable menus ever.. Incredibly slow to display (page up/down) that is littered with ads that take up abit more than half the screen so you can only see about an hour total per channel. When the box needs to be rebooted it can take anywhere from 1-30mins to restore the TV guide data.
The on demand service doesn't let you stop (or pause for extended periods) w/o having to renavigate the entire on demand menus to select the program again in order to resume what you were watching. It frequently says "Please try again in 5mins" when attempting to watch any on demand and they are incredibly slow at getting new on demand content up. For example HBO on demand shows sometimes take an entire week to put up while my parents w/ Timer Warner have their stuff up the minute the program ends.
The internet upstream for the most expensive (3mb down which you will never get closed to seeing) service is still capped at 128kbps
to complete my 80s movies nostalgia DVD collection.
SED (Surface-conducting Electron-emmitting Display) has the potential to beat both.
They'll have 10,000:1 (100,000:1 possible) contract ratios and 1ms responce speeds and 1/3 the power consumption as plasma..
From what I read it's pretty similar to a CRT except it has the ability to be as slim as a LCD/Plasma.
http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/sed_tvs.htm
Zelda Wii will support 16:9 widescreen, since the hardware will be able to render more of the playing area without crippling the framrate.
The gamecube can support 16:9 as well rgiht? I'm pretty sure I've seen options in some GC games to enable widescreen.. So I assume the GC ver will also support 16:9
so which version should I get? Is nintendo hoping I purchase both by not allowing GC controllers (since we already know you can plug a GC controller into the Wii) to work w/ the Wii ver?
If the Wii has any additional gameplay elements or improved graphics/sound I would say no question get the Wii ver.. However if it's exactly the same I'd lean towards the GC ver. My logic behind this is that the core of the games controllers were designed first and formost w/ the GC controller in mind.
I really hope we get the specifics on the differences (if any) soon so I can ensure I have the new Zelda on release day
Wired is inconvenient (particularly when renting) and there no reason wireless can't be reasonably secure.
Ethernet over power lines... Granted from what I read it also has some security issues where grids overlap etc but you can keep out the wardrivers.
It's off topic but i ran across this today and found it too funny not to share. It's a old PSA about pornography that is pretty funny
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-17152849
I mean circuit city did try to make divx work for christ sakes! Let them settle the score with this little DMCA violation for awhile.. It's only fair
I attempted to run it with 0.9.17 and was unable to get the game to run. I attempted to use the non fullscreen mode as well and it still failed on start. I got sound but no video just an empty window. If anyone does get it to run let me know how.
Thanks
Eric
Anyone know if the demo runs on wine? I checked the appdb but didn't find anything about it.
Would you plasee let me in on this joke? I've seen it twice now and not sure wtf it's all about? Something to do with SQL?
A secondary lock.. I mean if it doesn't prompt you "Please knock your PW now" who'd know why the system doesn't come up after entering a valid username/password.
Or maybe you could just have various aspects of your desktop hidden unless you knock a specific pattern.
A secret knock pattern to login to your machine perhaps?
God and by the looks of it he has really let himself go.
Do human brain neurons communicate with each other using TCP/IP?
Nope, hence the phrase "In one ear and out the other" aka packet loss...
I thought the minimum number of posts for another article appearing the very next day is 800 posts. I guess someone is desperate for click through traffic.
Obviously the editor has a strong premonition the other 400 were on the way!
I stumbled across a novel my Scott Adams recently called "God's Debris" (Free e-book found online at http://images.ucomics.com/images/pdfs/sadams/godsd ebris.pdf ) which spoke abit about ESP and it can be mistaken for pattern recognition.
The idea that a person can perform complex calculations to form conclusions based on probability in the subconscience where the outcome feels like a "gut feeling" or "intuition".
Consider how the average person would treat a Sherlock Holmes type person's ability to solve a crime where others fail if he didn't explain his logic. Now let's go a step further and say even he didn't understand how he came to the conclusion he did. Say he just "felt it" and that all the logic was processed in his subconsciene and he was made to believe he solved the crime by some mystic ability. How many times have you gone on a gut feeling but weren't actually aware of what caused you to come to your conclusion?