I remember quite vividly playing Doom 2 on an old 486 (DXII boyiee) connecting to my frined in the suburbs to play coop through the whole game. Half of the fun was getting your @%$^% init strings right for our modems, loading up quemm and sucking every last byte available from the soldered on packard-hell memory, only then (after a few failed connects) the game would work work. Now a days is turn computer on, load game, play.
I know i come of as cane-waving but back in those day you auctually had to know a bit about computer hardware before you could play anything.
and before anyone else does the obligatory Python sketch:
Man#1: Aye, in them days we was glad to have the price of a cup of tea!
Man#2: Aye, a cup of cold tea!
Man#4: Without milk or sugar!
Man#3: Or tea!
Man#1: Aye, in a cracked cup and all!
Man#4: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!
Man#2: Aye, the best we could manage in those days was to suck on a piece of damp cloth!
Man#3: Aye, but we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Man#1: Because we were poor! My old dad used to say to me: Money doesn't buy you happiness!
Man#4: Aye, he was right, I was happier then and I had nothing. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
Man#2: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We had to all live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, and were all huddled together in a corner for fear of falling!
Man#3: You were lucky to have a room! We used to 'ave to live in a corridor!
Man#1: Oh, we used to DREAM of living in a corridor. It would have been a palace to us. We used to have to live in an old water tank in a rubbish pit. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House! Huh!
Man#4: Well, when I say house, it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us!
Man#2: We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake!
Man#3: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us, living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!
Man#1: Cardboard box?
Man#3: Aye!
Man#1: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
(slight pause)
Man#2: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of damp gravel, work a twenty-hour day at the mill for tuppence a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
Man#3: Well, of course, we 'ad it tough! We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and lick the road clean with our tongue. We 'ad two bits of cold gravel, and worked a twenty-four hour day at the mill for six or seventy-four years, and when we got home, our dad would slash it to us with a bread knife.
Man#4: Right. I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hourbefore I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja.
Man#1: Aye, and you try telling young people of today that. And they won't believe you.
Man#4: Aye, they won't!
Software piracy is bad, m'kay, but two wrongs don't make a right!
But two lefts do!
Bada-bing, thank you thank you, try the steak and dont forget to tip your waitress.
See, in the university's opinion, a student's dormroom bandwidth isn't really their property, it's an educational tool.
At my university students will soon have to pay for their bandwidth, as the university will be upgrading the network for "high-speed" internet connections.
I think that bitorrent could be a great tookl in releaving some of the congestion associated with popular apps being downloaded from the Internet. If one person could download it then the rest of the people could just download it via the local network and take the burden off of the internet bandwidth.
I got sick of all the assorted BS of our school's "gaywall" and moved off-campus and got a DSL connection, at least I'm not going to pay for something i have no control over.
Well virii are not the ideal mode of transmission, I woudl think that at spre-forming bacterium woudl be ideal. They are hardy, resisting tempreatures (high and low) dessication, radiation, hell some survive the autoclave. That is until they find the right enviorment, say your throat.
The only problem is that strain improvement and engineering are not easy tasks, they require talented scientists with really good equiptment to carry out sucessfully, not some nut in a cave with a bowl and a pistal(sp?).
As for viruses that kill their host being "unsucessful" that is not entirely true, most viruses have a resivor where they live without killing the host, but are dangerious to other hosts. For instance say your cold-sore (herpies simplex) kills your dog, just because it killed your dog doesnt make it unsuccessful, it's just a side-effect of the particular genes expressed that maybe have no (pathogenic) effect on you but are detrimental to your canine friend.
Silver is an element on the periodic scale...
Silver (AG) atomic number 47
Yes it is deceptive but when when put in context it seems to imply that they are refering to the element not the color.
If i were to tell you "I have a silver car" Are you to assume that my car is made out of the element silver, or the color? If i were to say " I have silver thermal paste." Are you to think I replaced my current thermal paste for a silver color one, even though I will not be able to see it at all?
Would it be considered terribly inappropriate, or even grounds for appeal, if the judge called Darl and Kevin McBride to the bench and then repeatedly, and with extreme prejudice, smote them with her gavel?
Does she have to roll for smite? If so whats her modifer?
I soo wanted one of those castle sets and the old Technics (sp?) sets.
I remember that one of the commericials said like "Storm the castle!!!" and i immediately started pestering my parents to get me one.
Yah and the lego men looked much tougher with those Rollie-Finger mustaches on the pirate characters ARRR...
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I remember quite vividly playing Doom 2 on an old 486 (DXII boyiee) connecting to my frined in the suburbs to play coop through the whole game. Half of the fun was getting your @%$^% init strings right for our modems, loading up quemm and sucking every last byte available from the soldered on packard-hell memory, only then (after a few failed connects) the game would work work. Now a days is turn computer on, load game, play. I know i come of as cane-waving but back in those day you auctually had to know a bit about computer hardware before you could play anything. and before anyone else does the obligatory Python sketch: Man#1: Aye, in them days we was glad to have the price of a cup of tea! Man#2: Aye, a cup of cold tea! Man#4: Without milk or sugar! Man#3: Or tea! Man#1: Aye, in a cracked cup and all! Man#4: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper! Man#2: Aye, the best we could manage in those days was to suck on a piece of damp cloth! Man#3: Aye, but we were happy in those days, though we were poor. Man#1: Because we were poor! My old dad used to say to me: Money doesn't buy you happiness! Man#4: Aye, he was right, I was happier then and I had nothing. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof. Man#2: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We had to all live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, and were all huddled together in a corner for fear of falling! Man#3: You were lucky to have a room! We used to 'ave to live in a corridor! Man#1: Oh, we used to DREAM of living in a corridor. It would have been a palace to us. We used to have to live in an old water tank in a rubbish pit. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House! Huh! Man#4: Well, when I say house, it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us! Man#2: We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake! Man#3: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us, living in a shoebox in the middle of the road! Man#1: Cardboard box? Man#3: Aye! Man#1: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt. (slight pause) Man#2: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of damp gravel, work a twenty-hour day at the mill for tuppence a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! Man#3: Well, of course, we 'ad it tough! We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and lick the road clean with our tongue. We 'ad two bits of cold gravel, and worked a twenty-four hour day at the mill for six or seventy-four years, and when we got home, our dad would slash it to us with a bread knife. Man#4: Right. I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hourbefore I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja. Man#1: Aye, and you try telling young people of today that. And they won't believe you. Man#4: Aye, they won't!
Software piracy is bad, m'kay, but two wrongs don't make a right! But two lefts do! Bada-bing, thank you thank you, try the steak and dont forget to tip your waitress.
See, in the university's opinion, a student's dormroom bandwidth isn't really their property, it's an educational tool. At my university students will soon have to pay for their bandwidth, as the university will be upgrading the network for "high-speed" internet connections. I think that bitorrent could be a great tookl in releaving some of the congestion associated with popular apps being downloaded from the Internet. If one person could download it then the rest of the people could just download it via the local network and take the burden off of the internet bandwidth. I got sick of all the assorted BS of our school's "gaywall" and moved off-campus and got a DSL connection, at least I'm not going to pay for something i have no control over.
Well virii are not the ideal mode of transmission, I woudl think that at spre-forming bacterium woudl be ideal. They are hardy, resisting tempreatures (high and low) dessication, radiation, hell some survive the autoclave. That is until they find the right enviorment, say your throat. The only problem is that strain improvement and engineering are not easy tasks, they require talented scientists with really good equiptment to carry out sucessfully, not some nut in a cave with a bowl and a pistal(sp?). As for viruses that kill their host being "unsucessful" that is not entirely true, most viruses have a resivor where they live without killing the host, but are dangerious to other hosts. For instance say your cold-sore (herpies simplex) kills your dog, just because it killed your dog doesnt make it unsuccessful, it's just a side-effect of the particular genes expressed that maybe have no (pathogenic) effect on you but are detrimental to your canine friend.
Silver is an element on the periodic scale... Silver (AG) atomic number 47 Yes it is deceptive but when when put in context it seems to imply that they are refering to the element not the color. If i were to tell you "I have a silver car" Are you to assume that my car is made out of the element silver, or the color? If i were to say " I have silver thermal paste." Are you to think I replaced my current thermal paste for a silver color one, even though I will not be able to see it at all?
Would it be considered terribly inappropriate, or even grounds for appeal, if the judge called Darl and Kevin McBride to the bench and then repeatedly, and with extreme prejudice, smote them with her gavel?
Does she have to roll for smite? If so whats her modifer?
Do NOT tell them they must now releaes all their source code to the public Am i too much of a nerd or did that sound pornographic?
I soo wanted one of those castle sets and the old Technics (sp?) sets. I remember that one of the commericials said like "Storm the castle!!!" and i immediately started pestering my parents to get me one. Yah and the lego men looked much tougher with those Rollie-Finger mustaches on the pirate characters ARRR...