Yup. Magazine extras was 'the little internet' before everyone had access. I even remember some magazines used to include extra CD's (in addition to the regularly stuffed-to-the-last-sector freeware and shareware) with wget-like rips of whole sites so the readers could 'browse the internet' from their CD drive. Good times.
Please provide proofs that Bin Laden was killed by the Obama administration. They are 'not public' due to 'respectfulness to the Muslims' or something along those lines. In fact, it seems more likely that Bin Laden was accidentally killed when Bush originally invaded Afghanistan. Nobody has been able to confirm his identity in audio and video recordings supposedly by him after that.
Anyone who buys or sells antique violins per EBay and PayPal didn't deserve to have it in the first place. I thought those kind instruments were passed on personally to the most talented players by previous owners or music societies. Maybe that's just the Paganini violins, which are truly priceless except for when they are for sale and then they go for millions. I almost choked on my morning coffee when I read this earlier, thinking it was one of Paganini's!
And holy shit, reading from other comments here, here's a protip: Do Not Use Paypal,Ebay And Fedex For Important Stuff That Actually Matters In Real Life
I thought everyone knew this by now.
As a buyer of several AAA titles last year, I can confirm that I will stop buying ANY game that relies on online activation. I am sorry, but when they don't work out of the box and the registrations servers are down, for even just a few hours, they lose customers. I will happily download all those games from piratebay from now on.
If the game industry dies, fine, fuck them if they think they will be missed. We have plenty of good indy releases. I will get my popcorn entertainment elsewhere. I shall spell this out slowly:
GAMES MUST WORK FROM INSTALL DVD LIKE THERE WAS NO INTERNET YET
Make them work and I will buy again. Maybe Crysis 2 didn't have DRM, and yes I pirated it. Not so much because I am a gamer but because as a coder, I like watching what the best of us can do!
But I am at the point where I don't care to explorer every game producers brilliant anti-copying scheme anymore. I rather just get the 100% proper, updated and patched pirated version 3-4 months later. And yes, I spent money on at least 3 non-DRM retail copies of other PC games last year from a local store that I *knew* worked from a backed up retail CD/DVD. Not to mention I still buy good PS2 games when I see them.
So twenty years to cross the galaxy and then, how far to the next ? And how big is that. And how many galaxies ? And how many galaxies do we have to cross to find something? Even with 10000 times light speed, chances are pretty small i think. I don't believe there's much more that us in this galaxy, or someone would have been here already.
Yeah it depends on wether it's an already mature standard product already that is sold at large and most kinks has been ironed out. Unfortunately, in the space industry like many other industries, it's all custom built *every time* and someone gets to lower his own production costs by choosing inferior materials to work with. Without telling anyone and hoping for the best.
I pretty much have the same story as you. Early believer, but then I came to realize the the dimensions of space and how slow our spacecrafts are. On top of that, it seems unlikely that, due to time dilation, any travel by current and near future physics will be moot. I am saying even if you can travel at 10% light speed or a hundred thousand times that, when you come back, everyone you knew will be dead and your research could be completely worthless. Sad but true.
We have this system in Norway too and it works. The liqour is a bit expensive but it's not a problem unless you are an alcoholic.
There's some alcohol peddlers, but they are not in the same league as the drug lords.
Actually, the last time I needed one was before I could legally buy it myself. Maybe lowering the 'drinking age' and educating the youth about the pros and cons would actually help ?
Legalizing drugs will fix almost all these problems without much effort; the black drug market will quickly shrink to the size of alcohol peddlers and tax revenues will skyrocket. Just look at the data from similar experiments especially in Portugal but also Italy and Germany as well as more. Crime rates fell, abuse went down, _especially_ among the young.
It would make sense to drop off extra weight at the moon, to conserve energy, before landing on Earth. Then again it is stupid to assume they got this far and THEN try to conserve energy. But you never know. Maybe there's an empty gas can or two left up there? That would be the only reason to land on the Moon for them. I'm sure their instruments already determined that the Moon is just a dead rock. They may travel by means where energy conservation is to no purpose. But as the parent post says, the worst that could happen is a better map of the Moon. Why not?!
I'd say the dollar has taken a plunge halfway to death (dollar has fallen to half, sometimes a third of it's value in the 80's and 90's), and that governments around the world are re-structuring to be free from US-assets like bonds and other government-backed economic tools. And the Japanese are doing good. Has the most expensive properties in the world too.
I am more of the opinion that 8.04 LTS fully updated is the XPSP3 of Ubuntu. Perhaps even 8.10. Everything after that started choked on my relatively recent 2006/2007 hardware. Sincerely, I believe that it will be discovered that all these wrong decisions that has been made in the Linux world recently was paid for. It was just about to become the True Linux Desktop Year (tm). Then suddenly, everyone's shit gets all retarded. It doesn't make sense.
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What on Earth makes people think that locking people up makes them better persons? It only incapacitates them for as long as they are locked up. Also, most people released from prison get a +10 level-up in crime skills from exchanging techniques with fellow inmates. Prisons helps no-one in the long run, except the companies that run them.
They seem to be the guys behind the original Turrican game (wich was a legendary classic). So maybe they still have the rights to that. Seems to me they are trying to make a buck on the Turrican trademark and mooch off some abandonware-legal-loophole at the same time. Can't say i blame them.
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Yup. Magazine extras was 'the little internet' before everyone had access. I even remember some magazines used to include extra CD's (in addition to the regularly stuffed-to-the-last-sector freeware and shareware) with wget-like rips of whole sites so the readers could 'browse the internet' from their CD drive. Good times.
Please provide proofs that Bin Laden was killed by the Obama administration. They are 'not public' due to 'respectfulness to the Muslims' or something along those lines. In fact, it seems more likely that Bin Laden was accidentally killed when Bush originally invaded Afghanistan. Nobody has been able to confirm his identity in audio and video recordings supposedly by him after that.
Anyone who buys or sells antique violins per EBay and PayPal didn't deserve to have it in the first place. I thought those kind instruments were passed on personally to the most talented players by previous owners or music societies. Maybe that's just the Paganini violins, which are truly priceless except for when they are for sale and then they go for millions. I almost choked on my morning coffee when I read this earlier, thinking it was one of Paganini's!
And holy shit, reading from other comments here, here's a protip: Do Not Use Paypal,Ebay And Fedex For Important Stuff That Actually Matters In Real Life I thought everyone knew this by now.
There's nothing to hate about IE9.
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HOMM3 veteran reporting. Too bad they never made a sequel, much like they didn't for The Matrix.
As a buyer of several AAA titles last year, I can confirm that I will stop buying ANY game that relies on online activation. I am sorry, but when they don't work out of the box and the registrations servers are down, for even just a few hours, they lose customers. I will happily download all those games from piratebay from now on. If the game industry dies, fine, fuck them if they think they will be missed. We have plenty of good indy releases. I will get my popcorn entertainment elsewhere. I shall spell this out slowly:
GAMES MUST WORK FROM INSTALL DVD LIKE THERE WAS NO INTERNET YET
Make them work and I will buy again. Maybe Crysis 2 didn't have DRM, and yes I pirated it. Not so much because I am a gamer but because as a coder, I like watching what the best of us can do! But I am at the point where I don't care to explorer every game producers brilliant anti-copying scheme anymore. I rather just get the 100% proper, updated and patched pirated version 3-4 months later. And yes, I spent money on at least 3 non-DRM retail copies of other PC games last year from a local store that I *knew* worked from a backed up retail CD/DVD. Not to mention I still buy good PS2 games when I see them.
Add one question mark, capitalize an i, change 'that' to 'than'.
So twenty years to cross the galaxy and then, how far to the next ? And how big is that. And how many galaxies ? And how many galaxies do we have to cross to find something? Even with 10000 times light speed, chances are pretty small i think. I don't believe there's much more that us in this galaxy, or someone would have been here already.
remove one 'already' from the first sentence. What about one of these fancy new edit-buttons that ive heard so much about?
Yeah it depends on wether it's an already mature standard product already that is sold at large and most kinks has been ironed out. Unfortunately, in the space industry like many other industries, it's all custom built *every time* and someone gets to lower his own production costs by choosing inferior materials to work with. Without telling anyone and hoping for the best.
I pretty much have the same story as you. Early believer, but then I came to realize the the dimensions of space and how slow our spacecrafts are. On top of that, it seems unlikely that, due to time dilation, any travel by current and near future physics will be moot. I am saying even if you can travel at 10% light speed or a hundred thousand times that, when you come back, everyone you knew will be dead and your research could be completely worthless. Sad but true.
I'd like to point out here that I do not work in telemarketing anymore :D It's over 10 years ago!
Yeah, until someone declares IPV4 'a security risk' and a 'terrorist network'.
You could be right. There's more history between these guys than the mob would like to know right now.
We have this system in Norway too and it works. The liqour is a bit expensive but it's not a problem unless you are an alcoholic. There's some alcohol peddlers, but they are not in the same league as the drug lords. Actually, the last time I needed one was before I could legally buy it myself. Maybe lowering the 'drinking age' and educating the youth about the pros and cons would actually help ? Legalizing drugs will fix almost all these problems without much effort; the black drug market will quickly shrink to the size of alcohol peddlers and tax revenues will skyrocket. Just look at the data from similar experiments especially in Portugal but also Italy and Germany as well as more. Crime rates fell, abuse went down, _especially_ among the young.
This is Telemarketing 101. We learned this on the first training day. Nothing new. It's called the 'Positive Response' trick.
It would make sense to drop off extra weight at the moon, to conserve energy, before landing on Earth. Then again it is stupid to assume they got this far and THEN try to conserve energy. But you never know. Maybe there's an empty gas can or two left up there? That would be the only reason to land on the Moon for them. I'm sure their instruments already determined that the Moon is just a dead rock. They may travel by means where energy conservation is to no purpose. But as the parent post says, the worst that could happen is a better map of the Moon. Why not?!
And the US' biggest export is...? Entertainment ? Grain ? Seems to me they mostly import from China, paying with money that don't exist yet.
Actually, ads in magazines don't jump around and cover up the next page.
Posting from a noscripted, flashblocked, ++ browser, I'd be careful with depending on geeks for ad revenue. I suppose most of you have similar setups.
I'd say the dollar has taken a plunge halfway to death (dollar has fallen to half, sometimes a third of it's value in the 80's and 90's), and that governments around the world are re-structuring to be free from US-assets like bonds and other government-backed economic tools. And the Japanese are doing good. Has the most expensive properties in the world too.
MS developer tools has been very good since the VC6 era.
I am more of the opinion that 8.04 LTS fully updated is the XPSP3 of Ubuntu. Perhaps even 8.10. Everything after that started choked on my relatively recent 2006/2007 hardware. Sincerely, I believe that it will be discovered that all these wrong decisions that has been made in the Linux world recently was paid for. It was just about to become the True Linux Desktop Year (tm). Then suddenly, everyone's shit gets all retarded. It doesn't make sense.
What on Earth makes people think that locking people up makes them better persons? It only incapacitates them for as long as they are locked up. Also, most people released from prison get a +10 level-up in crime skills from exchanging techniques with fellow inmates. Prisons helps no-one in the long run, except the companies that run them.
They seem to be the guys behind the original Turrican game (wich was a legendary classic). So maybe they still have the rights to that. Seems to me they are trying to make a buck on the Turrican trademark and mooch off some abandonware-legal-loophole at the same time. Can't say i blame them.