But they are already saying that they've built it, tested it, and had it independantly verified. Check their website if you don't believe it. To use your inapt metaphor: the rocket is already built.
(..And the first idiot that says "Hey, you mean inept, jackass." is going to get that rocket shoved up their arse.)
If the device really worked, there would be no need for scientific verification. They'd just hook 50 of them up to the grid and make millions generating and selling electricity to the power companies.
If it works, why does it need to be proven? Just go out and make billions with the device.
I like AMD, but Dell could put magic genies in their boxes and I would never buy one. Generally non-upgradeable, pre-installed spyware, and abysmal tech support.
My mother spent 6 months on the phone to India 'tech support' trying to get her box to stop hanging until the Dell tech finally came and swapped her NIC.
Put what you want in the box, Dell, I and anyone else in the know ain't buying.
Q: What makes people go to an internet cafe / arcade?
A: They have hardware that many people don't have at home.
The bottom line is: analyze whether or not you can provide a service, at the location you choose, that people cannot access already in the comfort of their own basements.
I live in Winnipeg, Canada. The last internet cafe closed 4 months ago, and the last arcade closed 2 weeks ago. You are thinking about entering a dying industry. Tread carefully because you likely cannot win.
Yes! I've been getting tons of spam in my Hotmail account! I even whipped up a few regexp's that would cut my spam by about 98% and sent them to the Hotmail Spam Filter Team, but I've yet to hear back.
Where else are you going to go? digg? Reddit? (gasp!) Netscape?
A while back I abandoned/. and hung out on those other sites looking for geek news. All I found was:
Wildly sensational and innaccurate stories;
An immateur and ill-informed community;
YouTube links, screensavers, and desktop wallpaper collections passing as news;
More blog spam than you can shake a stick at;
Frustratingly inane and irrelevant comments.
Sure the ol'/. has some problems, but it's actually been much better recently (I assume due to pressure from digg). The commenting and moderation system are the best IMO, and I'd rather hang out with these intelligent folk then the bozos over at some of those other sites.
The first RPG I ever played was simply called "Dungeon", this was the Commodore game that got my entire family hooked on video games for the rest of our lives.
We would sit around the supper table, each trading stories about our experience in this expansive and immersive alternate reality. I would inform everyone about the secret passage I found, where I found a secret spell called Temporal Fugue; my brother would update us as to how much money he had stolen from the bank that day; my father would describe his run-in with "The Devourer".
This game held a special place in all of our hearts and often we would fondly discuss how great the game was... until last year... when I found an emulator and ROM and decided to relive all my old memories. The lush and vibrant full-color dungeon memories that I had in my mind was immediately shattered by a crude 4 color, blocky rendition of what vaguely looked like walls and doors. My memories of thrilling game-play in a true-to-life virtual world were replaced by agonizing and seemingly endless boring hall-walking.
I showed my father. All he did was scream "NO! THERE IS NO WAY THAT THAT'S HOW BAD IT LOOKED! CHRIS YOU MUST HAVE MADE A MISTAKE. THIS CAN'T BE DUNGEON!!"
While my father is STILL in denial, I have accepted the truth. My fond memories of that game are gone forever.
Can you pick out one person from this list that is invaluable? Hell, they're all upper managers and marketing/PR flunkies. Getting rid of them can only improve game development.
* Jamie King (VP of Development)
* Jennifer Gross (Director of Marketing)
* Laura Paterson (Director of Marketing)
* Navid Khonsari (Director of Development)
* Jeff Castaneda (Director of PR)
* Chris Carro (Sr. Pr Manager)
* Corey Wade (Sr. Product Mgr)
* Futaba Hayashi (Sr. Web Designer)
* Todd Zuniga (PR Manager)
* Ryan Rayhill (PR)
Mosquitos can bite me all day long and I never get a welt. My mother on the other hand, gets two bites and puffs up like the Michelin Man (TM).
I am convinced that I do NOT have a natural resistance to mosquito venom, rather I believe that I have 'tuned' my body to be resistant. You see, growing up as a child I had the idea in my head (don't know how it got there), that if I just let the mosquitos bite me that eventually my body would adapt and become resistant. So while everybody else was slapping their arms and waving their hands about in the air, I would sit there and let them suck away... after I figured they had enough blood, I would pick them off by the leg and let them fly away.
Is there any merit to this? I'm not sure, but I can tell you that I USED to swell up after begin bitten, but NOW I'm all but immune.
You're absolutely right. The ad is to woo ordinary users, but the word "free" will turn them off. Outside the F/OSS community, "free" means "avoid at all cost".
Free download!
Free install!
Free to use!
Free trial!
Whenever people see the word "free" used in the context of software, they think malware, adware, spyware, phishing and viruses.
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Yes! Serious Sam : The Second Encounter (not to be confused with Serious Sam 2) was a fantastic game... A game I play at least once a year and would highly recommend to any fast-paced FPS fan. Played on 'Serious' difficulty, it's one of the toughest FPS games ever (but really fun!)
Perfect time to re-install and re-play
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I still play the original Quake. Nothing has every really come close to the "arcade-y" feel of Quake. The controls were tight, and the game was pure fun. I encourage you to honor Quake's 10 year aniversary by re-installing it and playing for an evening.
Put it on nightmare, type +mlook into the console and let er rip. Not many games can be enjoyed 10 years after their initial release, but Quake stands above the crowd.
Why are we discussing the merits of 17 different online storage services when you can host your own for pennies? Mine is a PII 75Mhz that I bought for $25 and it's sitting 3 feet away from me.
I am a language-nerd and would love to hear how your name is properly pronounced. I know that via the web, this can only be demonstrated via an audio file. If agree to host the.MP3 file, will you share the proper pronunciation with us?
(I'm really very interested)
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Why, God, why did I burn my mod points yesterday modding up "...welcome our new overlords" and "3. ??? 4. Profit" jokes?
I badly want them back so I can mod this whole thread OT.
Read the definition of rhetorical question.
It was reported in 2004 that Shrimp have the fastest 'kick'.
Why do I keep talking to you people? From the article, it CLEARLY says that that is NOT the device in question. I'm done with you people. Good night.
But they are already saying that they've built it, tested it, and had it independantly verified. Check their website if you don't believe it. To use your inapt metaphor: the rocket is already built.
(..And the first idiot that says "Hey, you mean inept, jackass." is going to get that rocket shoved up their arse.)
If the device really worked, there would be no need for scientific verification. They'd just hook 50 of them up to the grid and make millions generating and selling electricity to the power companies.
If it works, why does it need to be proven? Just go out and make billions with the device.
At least that's how this reads.
Sigh... I'm irritated by people who think that their large vocabularies make them good communicators.
Nice one! :D
I like AMD, but Dell could put magic genies in their boxes and I would never buy one. Generally non-upgradeable, pre-installed spyware, and abysmal tech support.
My mother spent 6 months on the phone to India 'tech support' trying to get her box to stop hanging until the Dell tech finally came and swapped her NIC.
Put what you want in the box, Dell, I and anyone else in the know ain't buying.
...are the greatest hero in the history of the world.
I mean it.
Q: What makes people go to an internet cafe / arcade?
A: They have hardware that many people don't have at home.
The bottom line is: analyze whether or not you can provide a service, at the location you choose, that people cannot access already in the comfort of their own basements.
I live in Winnipeg, Canada. The last internet cafe closed 4 months ago, and the last arcade closed 2 weeks ago. You are thinking about entering a dying industry. Tread carefully because you likely cannot win.
Yes! I've been getting tons of spam in my Hotmail account! I even whipped up a few regexp's that would cut my spam by about 98% and sent them to the Hotmail Spam Filter Team, but I've yet to hear back.
/^[e3]n[l1][a4]rg[e3]y[0o]urm[a4]nh[o0]{1,3}d/
/^r[o0][l1][e3]xr[e3]p[l1][i1l]c[a4]/
I also prefer wired keyboards and mouse pointers
I need my pointer to move freely. The mouse itself can be wired though.
A while back I abandoned
- Wildly sensational and innaccurate stories;
- An immateur and ill-informed community;
- YouTube links, screensavers, and desktop wallpaper collections passing as news;
- More blog spam than you can shake a stick at;
- Frustratingly inane and irrelevant comments.
Sure the ol'Perhaps you should re-read my post. I also said the gameplay was agonizing and boring.
The first RPG I ever played was simply called "Dungeon", this was the Commodore game that got my entire family hooked on video games for the rest of our lives.
We would sit around the supper table, each trading stories about our experience in this expansive and immersive alternate reality. I would inform everyone about the secret passage I found, where I found a secret spell called Temporal Fugue; my brother would update us as to how much money he had stolen from the bank that day; my father would describe his run-in with "The Devourer".
This game held a special place in all of our hearts and often we would fondly discuss how great the game was... until last year... when I found an emulator and ROM and decided to relive all my old memories. The lush and vibrant full-color dungeon memories that I had in my mind was immediately shattered by a crude 4 color, blocky rendition of what vaguely looked like walls and doors. My memories of thrilling game-play in a true-to-life virtual world were replaced by agonizing and seemingly endless boring hall-walking.
I showed my father. All he did was scream "NO! THERE IS NO WAY THAT THAT'S HOW BAD IT LOOKED! CHRIS YOU MUST HAVE MADE A MISTAKE. THIS CAN'T BE DUNGEON!!"
While my father is STILL in denial, I have accepted the truth. My fond memories of that game are gone forever.
I'm still downgrading to Vista the second it's released.
Can you pick out one person from this list that is invaluable? Hell, they're all upper managers and marketing/PR flunkies. Getting rid of them can only improve game development.
* Jamie King (VP of Development) * Jennifer Gross (Director of Marketing) * Laura Paterson (Director of Marketing) * Navid Khonsari (Director of Development) * Jeff Castaneda (Director of PR) * Chris Carro (Sr. Pr Manager) * Corey Wade (Sr. Product Mgr) * Futaba Hayashi (Sr. Web Designer) * Todd Zuniga (PR Manager) * Ryan Rayhill (PR)
Mosquitos can bite me all day long and I never get a welt. My mother on the other hand, gets two bites and puffs up like the Michelin Man (TM).
I am convinced that I do NOT have a natural resistance to mosquito venom, rather I believe that I have 'tuned' my body to be resistant. You see, growing up as a child I had the idea in my head (don't know how it got there), that if I just let the mosquitos bite me that eventually my body would adapt and become resistant. So while everybody else was slapping their arms and waving their hands about in the air, I would sit there and let them suck away... after I figured they had enough blood, I would pick them off by the leg and let them fly away.
Is there any merit to this? I'm not sure, but I can tell you that I USED to swell up after begin bitten, but NOW I'm all but immune.
- Free download!
- Free install!
- Free to use!
- Free trial!
Whenever people see the word "free" used in the context of software, they think malware, adware, spyware, phishing and viruses.Yes! Serious Sam : The Second Encounter (not to be confused with Serious Sam 2) was a fantastic game... A game I play at least once a year and would highly recommend to any fast-paced FPS fan. Played on 'Serious' difficulty, it's one of the toughest FPS games ever (but really fun!)
I still play the original Quake. Nothing has every really come close to the "arcade-y" feel of Quake. The controls were tight, and the game was pure fun. I encourage you to honor Quake's 10 year aniversary by re-installing it and playing for an evening.
Put it on nightmare, type +mlook into the console and let er rip. Not many games can be enjoyed 10 years after their initial release, but Quake stands above the crowd.
Why are we discussing the merits of 17 different online storage services when you can host your own for pennies? Mine is a PII 75Mhz that I bought for $25 and it's sitting 3 feet away from me.
Hey... the tag line is News for Nerds... not Timely News for Nerds...
So what if they're 7 years behind.
I am a language-nerd and would love to hear how your name is properly pronounced. I know that via the web, this can only be demonstrated via an audio file. If agree to host the .MP3 file, will you share the proper pronunciation with us?
(I'm really very interested)