If it had been a new series I doubt anyone would have cared half as much. (Do you think they'll still be making Rage jokes in 10 years?) But Doom as a series was about fast gameplay, running and gunning, falling back to cleared areas (and sometimes meeting a toothy surprise), getting the hordes to fight amongst themselves. But apparently somewhere along the way they decided to make System Shock 3: SHODAN Goes to Hell instead. Some innovation was needed to the old series, but retooling it into a bad copy of another series isn't innovation, it's slapping an IP onto the wrong game.
There was also an intel chip that just had contacts on the bottom of the cpu a few years ago, and the mobo had some other spring loaded contacts in it, those things never worked.
So, LGA socket. You just described pretty much every CPU Intel has released in over five years.
They'd get nailed to the wall and whatever video games they play would be excoriated in Congress. I got in more trouble defending myself than my attackers ever got in for attacking me.
Was the main reason I got into some light theft and break and enter when I was in my teens. I'd realized that I'd never seen the school administration blame the right person for anything, so I started doing things to get back something for the times I'd been punished. Never got caught for anything I did.
George Orwell mentioned getting mocked -- by the headmaster's wife, for cripes sake -- for being part of a group that collected insects. ("Such, Such Were the Joys.")
That's okay, at my school the vice principal mocked a kid for wanting to learn math one grade above her level. In a speech in front of 100+ people, fully half of them students. Named the kid and everything, and said "I told her 'You can't do math!'" The woman seated next to me was so mad I think it was only fear of arrest that kept her from running to the stage and beating the VP with the mic stand.
And the VP wondered why the nicest nickname the students had for her was "Conan".
I've been screaming at it. Doesn't work at all, but I feel better. Though it does make me think that if they were gonna add a human sense to Windows they should've added hearing, not touch.
The next time someone here asks how we arrived at a point where the only ones with a shot at winning are two corrupt and manipulative parties that are carbon copies on all but a few wedge issues, please point them at this post and remind them that this is an "average voter".
How do you know he didn't? I mean, Vic's been big on knowing what's going on in everyone's computer and bedroom for a while. Maybe he just can't keep the "queer" list up-to-date because he's too busy keeping the "liberal-lover" list, the "filthy pirate" list, and the "godless bastard" list up-to-date. Especially that second one; his fellow party members didn't go to all those little meetings with Sony and EMI and the rest of the RIAA for nothing after all!
It should be pointed out though, Antivirus will have nothing to do with preserving the liftime of your PC.
You'd be surprised. I've known people who get a computer, use it until it's so bogged down with crap and viruses that it's unusable*, then toss it out and get a new one. They have no conception of what a recovery disk/partition is. At all. Software and hardware are all part of the magic box and they have no interest in differentiating.
(* For these people, half an hour boot time is merely "slow". Unusable means "won't boot".)
My favorite parts: "waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned -- all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches." To stress this: he gets that sick from DIMMER SWITCHES 30 FEET AWAY. And it would have to be a damn fantastic dimmer to have wi-fi.
And: "Firstenberg said he was staying with friends and occasionally sleeping in his car." A dimmer switch in a house about 30 feet from his makes him sick, but he can drive (I assume) and sleep in a car about a yard from an internal combustion engine, alternator, and a lead acid battery.
Wasn't there also some public school district that was suffering legal trouble from the same claims?
If you want to find more, look up Magda Havas. She's making a nice profit being an "expert" on how Wifi is killing you and UR BABIEZZZZZ. Then there's Barrie Trower. I haven't heard much about him except that he adds some conspiracy theory to the mix and meets interesting people like the king of Botswana (the country is a republic).
It's not always that easy. I have a friend who worked at a charity that took in old corporate PCs, tested them, wiped and reinstalled Windows, and then sent them out to schools. They couldn't reuse the licenses. As part of the deal allowing them to buy keys for the systems that didn't come in with one or where it had faded to illegibility, ALL the old keys had to be destroyed. Microsoft's orders.
Every system got a new OEM-ish sticker from Microsoft. Which caused a problem when XP was finally aged out because it was what most of the systems originally came with and in some cases all they could run (due to drivers and whatnot). Microsoft refused to provide any more replacement keys for a province-wide charity on the grounds that they weren't large enough. They eventually reversed the decision and did another run of keys, but not until the charity was starting to ditch stuff that wasn't Vista/7 compatible because they were out of XP keys.
Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!. Of course, when I was a kid people were predicting that the Baby Boom was going to result in some mad exponential growth thing and there'd be billions of people in North America by 2000ish, so I thought I was looking at my future.
Actually, the MSD SD-2 was a dual drive that worked fine with a Commodore 64. Was quite weird to type LOAD "1:*",8,1 that first time!
Though due to copy protection and whatnot I usually kept using my trusty 1541. When I needed to format anything or copy files, though, the SD-2 saved me hours. (I still have that drive even though I lack a C64 at the moment.)
What makes it even more awesome was that it was a dumpster salvage from the school I was at. It had been declared broken and was to be pitched. I was the good student and volunteered to take it out to the dumpster for them. As far as they know, that's what I did.:) Bought a new fuse for it and it worked like a charm.
I've noticed some websites are adopting the TV/radio model but forcing you to watch a 15 second ad before reaching the actual website.
Which doesn't work either so long as alt-tab exists (for me, anyway). I so rarely have a single window open that when the ad starts up, I mute it and go do something else while I wait for the content. I suppose it would work for the people out there who don't understand multitasking, and there are a lot of them....
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Why so much hate for this game?
If it had been a new series I doubt anyone would have cared half as much. (Do you think they'll still be making Rage jokes in 10 years?) But Doom as a series was about fast gameplay, running and gunning, falling back to cleared areas (and sometimes meeting a toothy surprise), getting the hordes to fight amongst themselves. But apparently somewhere along the way they decided to make System Shock 3: SHODAN Goes to Hell instead. Some innovation was needed to the old series, but retooling it into a bad copy of another series isn't innovation, it's slapping an IP onto the wrong game.
I haven't heard of any natural predators that use projectiles shot from their bodies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archerfish
There was also an intel chip that just had contacts on the bottom of the cpu a few years ago, and the mobo had some other spring loaded contacts in it, those things never worked.
So, LGA socket. You just described pretty much every CPU Intel has released in over five years.
Never worked, huh?
... and more of a "Discovered Uncountry", wouldn't you say?
They'd get nailed to the wall and whatever video games they play would be excoriated in Congress. I got in more trouble defending myself than my attackers ever got in for attacking me.
Was the main reason I got into some light theft and break and enter when I was in my teens. I'd realized that I'd never seen the school administration blame the right person for anything, so I started doing things to get back something for the times I'd been punished. Never got caught for anything I did.
George Orwell mentioned getting mocked -- by the headmaster's wife, for cripes sake -- for being part of a group that collected insects. ("Such, Such Were the Joys.")
That's okay, at my school the vice principal mocked a kid for wanting to learn math one grade above her level. In a speech in front of 100+ people, fully half of them students. Named the kid and everything, and said "I told her 'You can't do math!'" The woman seated next to me was so mad I think it was only fear of arrest that kept her from running to the stage and beating the VP with the mic stand.
And the VP wondered why the nicest nickname the students had for her was "Conan".
What's "new" is that touch capability is becoming ubiquitous. That's why Micro$oft is pushing tiles (in my opinion.)
I didn't realize Microsoft cured gorilla arm.
I've been screaming at it. Doesn't work at all, but I feel better. Though it does make me think that if they were gonna add a human sense to Windows they should've added hearing, not touch.
My God man, I can't condone that, even if the victim is a patent troll. I'm a vigilante, not a monster!
It's looking less Orwell and more Max Headroom, to be honest.
> the O's are in for FOUR MORE YEARS bitch.
The next time someone here asks how we arrived at a point where the only ones with a shot at winning are two corrupt and manipulative parties that are carbon copies on all but a few wedge issues, please point them at this post and remind them that this is an "average voter".
I don't know, I thought the Sith had a good knack for it.
How do you know he didn't? I mean, Vic's been big on knowing what's going on in everyone's computer and bedroom for a while. Maybe he just can't keep the "queer" list up-to-date because he's too busy keeping the "liberal-lover" list, the "filthy pirate" list, and the "godless bastard" list up-to-date. Especially that second one; his fellow party members didn't go to all those little meetings with Sony and EMI and the rest of the RIAA for nothing after all!
You say that like it's impossible to visibly pander to a group while you try to undermine them.
It should be pointed out though, Antivirus will have nothing to do with preserving the liftime of your PC.
You'd be surprised. I've known people who get a computer, use it until it's so bogged down with crap and viruses that it's unusable*, then toss it out and get a new one. They have no conception of what a recovery disk/partition is. At all. Software and hardware are all part of the magic box and they have no interest in differentiating.
(* For these people, half an hour boot time is merely "slow". Unusable means "won't boot".)
TBH I would not be surprised if there was some feud between them and he just went full retard.
Nah, he was full retard from day one. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/28/nation/la-na-hometown-santa-fe28-2010mar28
My favorite parts: "waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned -- all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches." To stress this: he gets that sick from DIMMER SWITCHES 30 FEET AWAY. And it would have to be a damn fantastic dimmer to have wi-fi.
And: "Firstenberg said he was staying with friends and occasionally sleeping in his car." A dimmer switch in a house about 30 feet from his makes him sick, but he can drive (I assume) and sleep in a car about a yard from an internal combustion engine, alternator, and a lead acid battery.
Wasn't there also some public school district that was suffering legal trouble from the same claims?
You were probably thinking of: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/wi-fi_lawsuit_against_portland.html
Or maybe: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60769
But there's been a LOT of places suffering legal trouble: http://www.smdp.com/resident-files-1-7b-claim-with-city-hall/
If you want to find more, look up Magda Havas. She's making a nice profit being an "expert" on how Wifi is killing you and UR BABIEZZZZZ. Then there's Barrie Trower. I haven't heard much about him except that he adds some conspiracy theory to the mix and meets interesting people like the king of Botswana (the country is a republic).
I'd like to know where you are. Last place I saw around here that had helium, you had to book a week ahead to get access to a cylinder.
It's scary, the knockoff IP Giana Sisters is innovating more between versions than Mario is.
Every system got a new OEM-ish sticker from Microsoft. Which caused a problem when XP was finally aged out because it was what most of the systems originally came with and in some cases all they could run (due to drivers and whatnot). Microsoft refused to provide any more replacement keys for a province-wide charity on the grounds that they weren't large enough. They eventually reversed the decision and did another run of keys, but not until the charity was starting to ditch stuff that wasn't Vista/7 compatible because they were out of XP keys.
politicians who are saner than the US ones
Nope, sorry, you lost me there. Between the last federal election and the last Alberta one, I saw about three sane people and they all lost.
Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!. Of course, when I was a kid people were predicting that the Baby Boom was going to result in some mad exponential growth thing and there'd be billions of people in North America by 2000ish, so I thought I was looking at my future.
Though due to copy protection and whatnot I usually kept using my trusty 1541. When I needed to format anything or copy files, though, the SD-2 saved me hours. (I still have that drive even though I lack a C64 at the moment.)
What makes it even more awesome was that it was a dumpster salvage from the school I was at. It had been declared broken and was to be pitched. I was the good student and volunteered to take it out to the dumpster for them. As far as they know, that's what I did.:) Bought a new fuse for it and it worked like a charm.
I've noticed some websites are adopting the TV/radio model but forcing you to watch a 15 second ad before reaching the actual website.
Which doesn't work either so long as alt-tab exists (for me, anyway). I so rarely have a single window open that when the ad starts up, I mute it and go do something else while I wait for the content. I suppose it would work for the people out there who don't understand multitasking, and there are a lot of them....
Theory: Everything works as planned.
Reality: Douchenozzles stand on lettuce and post pictures on 4chan.
(Surprise: 4chan got the guy fired.)
People were complaining about this stuff years ago. Nothing beats the time they told a reviewer he didn't understand his own score system.