I agree that a properGTA:Vice city multiplayer mode would be the best thing since sliced bread.
Unfortunately multi theft auto is so flawed it's unplayable apart from a few minute novelty value blast. It's laggy, collisions (bullets and cars) are screwed, there are no pedestrians. Oh, and all the car and gun stats are local so the few games that are available are filled with 14 year olds with 5000000 round capacity superlight chainguns who can run faster than your car.
I understand that this is because the game in no way was designed to be multiplayer friendly. Unfortuantely I think we're going to have to wait for GTA4 (or whatever) for a 'proper' multiplayer game.
"You CANT break it! We're wiping the computer clean! Just choose something and if it doesn't work we can start over!"
I think this is the most important idea to get across to people. My dad was hopeless with PC's until I explained to him that, no matter what, he wasn't going to 'damage' the PC by messing around with windows settings. That was it- he just started playing with stuff. He's had to re-install a couple of times (who hasn't?) but now he's seriously computer savvy.
I'd say that they were already a huge target. What self repecting hacker wouldn't want googles server farm to play with? Plus their huge bandwidth- how big a botnet would you need to rival being DOS'd by google?
I think the scary thing is that a lot of these people are detained because the US was offering a bounty for the capture of foriegn 'terrorists'.
Think about it. Couple of thousand bucks for grabbing some poor guy off the street and delivering him. The only evidence required is your say so. I reckon if that was offered here you'd have trouble wallking down the street without being 'arrested' by enterprising citizens. Can't imagine what it must have been like in afganistan.
I'm similar. I don't buy DVD's, I don't buy CD's and I rarely buy computer games (direct2drive). But I do buy books. It's because a paper book is a fundamentally different experience than a screen based ebook.
I've come up with a good way to handle my dead tree addiction though. I buy a big pallet of books off eBay. Generally it's about £150 (~300 dollars) for 1500 books which is about as many as will fit on a pallet. I then spend an entertaining few hours picking out the ones that are my taste which is normally 50-100 of the books. I then put the rest back on eBay. Normally it means that my books cost me around 5 to 10 pence each, sometimes I make a profit!
Of course I still buy individual books that interest me.
Are they suggesting that google has to resort to keyword stuffing on cached pages to get a higher ranking on their own search engine? Is it me or is this unbelievably stupid? Surely, if they wanted too, they could just have their own pages rank top of whatever searchs they wanted- keywords or no keywords? Just some find of google flag in the ranking algorithm and they'd be done.
Yep. E=hf . EM radiation of microwave frequency doesn't have enough energy per photon to break DNA bonds. Bullshit's a cool show - the creationist one is my favourite I think although 'self help''s good too.
You sir are an idiot. Arguing that there is an undiscovered mechanism at work is one thing but arguing that the entire photon interpretation of em radiation is wrong is something else.Something stupid.
It was Einstien who put forward the photon interpretation of light by the way (in 1905). Either come up with a better theory or get some learning for gods sake.
I was browsing the comments and waiting for someone to actually point out that microwave radiation is non-ionising and that the heating effect is negligable. Hence no mechanism for harm.
I totally agree with your points- the studies so far don't show enough of an effect to show anything. I also think that the huge numbers of cellphones in use with no noticable increase in cancer/tumour rates is significant. It's been about 7 or 8 years since cell phones really started to take off big. Where's the big increase in cancer rates? That's enough time for an effect to begin to show itself. 675 MILLION cell phones were sold last year. A lot of people have phones.
I think the phone companies have shot themselves in the foot slightly. By seeming to repress studies they give them more weight.
I think people (other than the ones that just have no idea - like the parent to your comment) tend to use 'Can it generate all the power we need?' as a kind of reality check.
In other words, while nobody is suggesting that we actually generate all of our power from a single source, calculating the area of panels/number of windmills/whatever required to generate all of our electricity needs gives some idea of how useful the generation method is.
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Unfortunately multi theft auto is so flawed it's unplayable apart from a few minute novelty value blast. It's laggy, collisions (bullets and cars) are screwed, there are no pedestrians. Oh, and all the car and gun stats are local so the few games that are available are filled with 14 year olds with 5000000 round capacity superlight chainguns who can run faster than your car.
I understand that this is because the game in no way was designed to be multiplayer friendly. Unfortuantely I think we're going to have to wait for GTA4 (or whatever) for a 'proper' multiplayer game.
I doubt your batteries lasted for 1000 cycles too!
I thought that part of the problem was that liquid Ti's a real bastard to handle because it's so reactive. Special crucibles needed etc.
I think this is the most important idea to get across to people. My dad was hopeless with PC's until I explained to him that, no matter what, he wasn't going to 'damage' the PC by messing around with windows settings. That was it- he just started playing with stuff. He's had to re-install a couple of times (who hasn't?) but now he's seriously computer savvy.
http://www.hairykrishna.f2s.com/droplet.html
Put a web interface on it. Think of the AdWords revenue!
http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp ?storyid=49854&upto=1
I wanted to make it look like some kind of crazy mad scientists from the 50's PC. Couldn't get my hands on one of those boards though.Another reason NOT to buy a Dell
I'd say that they were already a huge target. What self repecting hacker wouldn't want googles server farm to play with? Plus their huge bandwidth- how big a botnet would you need to rival being DOS'd by google?
Think about it. Couple of thousand bucks for grabbing some poor guy off the street and delivering him. The only evidence required is your say so. I reckon if that was offered here you'd have trouble wallking down the street without being 'arrested' by enterprising citizens. Can't imagine what it must have been like in afganistan.
We could save them. I'd happily chuck in a few bucks a year to keep these probes going and I'm sure most of the people reading this story would too.
I've come up with a good way to handle my dead tree addiction though. I buy a big pallet of books off eBay. Generally it's about £150 (~300 dollars) for 1500 books which is about as many as will fit on a pallet. I then spend an entertaining few hours picking out the ones that are my taste which is normally 50-100 of the books. I then put the rest back on eBay. Normally it means that my books cost me around 5 to 10 pence each, sometimes I make a profit!
Of course I still buy individual books that interest me.
Are they suggesting that google has to resort to keyword stuffing on cached pages to get a higher ranking on their own search engine? Is it me or is this unbelievably stupid? Surely, if they wanted too, they could just have their own pages rank top of whatever searchs they wanted- keywords or no keywords? Just some find of google flag in the ranking algorithm and they'd be done.
There's one on torrentspy.com if anyone wants it.
I was wrong! It's so fast. Get it, you'll never use windows search again.
Yep. E=hf . EM radiation of microwave frequency doesn't have enough energy per photon to break DNA bonds. Bullshit's a cool show - the creationist one is my favourite I think although 'self help''s good too.
You sir are an idiot. Arguing that there is an undiscovered mechanism at work is one thing but arguing that the entire photon interpretation of em radiation is wrong is something else.Something stupid.
It was Einstien who put forward the photon interpretation of light by the way (in 1905). Either come up with a better theory or get some learning for gods sake.
I totally agree with your points- the studies so far don't show enough of an effect to show anything. I also think that the huge numbers of cellphones in use with no noticable increase in cancer/tumour rates is significant. It's been about 7 or 8 years since cell phones really started to take off big. Where's the big increase in cancer rates? That's enough time for an effect to begin to show itself. 675 MILLION cell phones were sold last year. A lot of people have phones.
I think the phone companies have shot themselves in the foot slightly. By seeming to repress studies they give them more weight.
Come on guys, you're slacking. Where's the .torrent? You know you want to...
http://midnightspaghetti.com/newsDiebold.php
Seems that they're only 'scrambling' now there is media attention.
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml
They're WAY out- factor of 100 at least. Either these dudes have screwed up the figures in the press release or they're so full of shit they squeak.
In other words, while nobody is suggesting that we actually generate all of our power from a single source, calculating the area of panels/number of windmills/whatever required to generate all of our electricity needs gives some idea of how useful the generation method is.
"Hey guys I'm feeling poor again- why not come over to my site and click on a few ads? No need to read anything."
Think of the man hours saved!