What the hell? I thought the whole 'Street Cred' thing was total crap. Now there's Geek Cred?
If someone really feels this need to prove their self to some sort of community through 'cred', they need to get a life...
If someone is putting presure on them to do things for 'cred', that person needs to realize that those people are not their friends and are just using them...
Yeah, they had a ton of celebrity endorsements for the Amiga back in the day...
I remember watching a video at Software Etc. / Babages that had B.B. King and Andy Warhol using their Amiga computers to create art and music. After seeing that, I knew I had to have one.:D
This whole thing makes me a bit nostalgic and sad at the same time as I am reminded how something once great was lost to corporate greed...:-/
People should realize that the PC's at the time were 286's with cga/ega graphics and a PC speaker for sound that only had DOS.
Apparently it's human instinct to slap a label on everyone and anything....
If someone can't fit something into a category, they seem lost or unable to comprehend it...
One of the other problems that might occur is the possibility that the recieving aliens don't have the same sensory organs/functions that we do. Even if they found a satelite of ours with an audio recording, what good would it do if they didn't have the ability to detect/interpet sound waves the same way we do? The same could be said for visual recordings. They might not 'see' the same spectrums of light that we do and not be able to see anything on a screen. For all we know, they could only hear magnetic waves and only see sound waves.
Its funny how arrogant mankind is in thinking that any alien species would be anything like him.
First contact will most likely come without any warning and huge communication and culture barriers will occur.
Hopefully both parties will have the patience and understanding to make it work.
Console games are generally coded to be played on a specific piece of hardware with all the same parts. So I wonder if PSX/PS2 games that try to access the rumble function of the controller will crash or if the PS3 will have some sort of workaround in its emulation.
High school is a cruel place. Its not easy being an outcast there. People will beat you up just because they don't like the way you dress, walk, or talk or for not having 'popular kid' interests/not being trendy. People will break or steal your belongings for the same reasons. Then when you call for help, your parents don't care as they are too busy with their selves. Your teachers/principals don't care because the bullies are star athletes that bring money into the school. And in some small towns like the one I grew up in, the police don't care because one of those bullies is the sheriff's son.
I not saying going on a shooting rampage is the answer but I guess sometimes a person has to start fighting back.
Unfortunately, guns tend to give instant courage to the meek and give the true victim what appears to them as an easy out....
Just like the bozos in congress that attach totally unrelated garbage to a bill trying to get passed, Microsoft will probably just attach it to another update that people will actually install...
Sonic Megaman PacMan Bonk Crash Banditcoot Banjo-Kazooie RayMan Strider Shinobi Arthur from (Ghosts N' Goblins) Little Mac (Yes, I know he's a Nintendo Character) Spiderman Ryu (From Street Fighter) Heihachi (From Tekken) Dirk The Daring and Singe(From Dragon's Lair) Gizmo and Stripe(From Gremlins) Bub and Bob (From Bubble Bobble)
It would have been nice to see some pics of the Amiga GUIs, year by year to show how much nicer they were at the time compared to Apple's and Microsoft's.
Don't legalise drugs on the basis of taxing them. Sure, tax them like you'd tax any other good, but I hate using revenue to the state as a justification. The reason drugs should be legal is because people should have dominion over their own bodies.
Yeah, unfortunately certain kinds of drugs (like the smokable kind) effect the bodies of those around the user. Legalizing such drugs would give people the ok to use them in public and I'm sure there are many of us that don't want a contact buzz because some jackass wants to smoke weed or crack in a public place. Also, you give users a green light to use them while driving and operating dangerous equipment which does tend to effect the 'bodies' of others in the vacinity.
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Kim Jong-il wants to DM this time...
Standing on the virtual curb with their "Will work for points" signs and their tin cups, panhandling for points... :-P
It just shows a bit of symbolism that the FF team can now have their cake and eat it too...
They were doing the Nutron Dance....woooohooo...
What the hell? I thought the whole 'Street Cred' thing was total crap. Now there's Geek Cred?
If someone really feels this need to prove their self to some sort of community through 'cred', they need to get a life...
If someone is putting presure on them to do things for 'cred', that person needs to realize that those people are not their friends and are just using them...
Yeah, they had a ton of celebrity endorsements for the Amiga back in the day...
:D
:-/
I remember watching a video at Software Etc. / Babages that had B.B. King and Andy Warhol using their Amiga computers to create art and music. After seeing that, I knew I had to have one.
This whole thing makes me a bit nostalgic and sad at the same time as I am reminded how something once great was lost to corporate greed...
People should realize that the PC's at the time were 286's with cga/ega graphics and a PC speaker for sound that only had DOS.
Apparently it's human instinct to slap a label on everyone and anything.... If someone can't fit something into a category, they seem lost or unable to comprehend it...
How about just putting a circle of box fans around the servers?
Just make sure they are on high or medium and you should be fine...
It works for keeping a human cool, why not servers?
I think the actual problem is Yahoo's way of line wrapping long chunks of text.
Basically, their system truncates the url when it line wraps the text. Nothing more...
His name wouldn't be 'The Spleen' would it?
Good thing we caught those space pallops on Uranus before they develop into space cancer.. :-P
One of the other problems that might occur is the possibility that the recieving aliens don't have the same sensory organs/functions that we do. Even if they found a satelite of ours with an audio recording, what good would it do if they didn't have the ability to detect/interpet sound waves the same way we do? The same could be said for visual recordings. They might not 'see' the same spectrums of light that we do and not be able to see anything on a screen. For all we know, they could only hear magnetic waves and only see sound waves.
Its funny how arrogant mankind is in thinking that any alien species would be anything like him.
First contact will most likely come without any warning and huge communication and culture barriers will occur.
Hopefully both parties will have the patience and understanding to make it work.
Probably electricity stored a gallon sized Leyden Jar. :P
Console games are generally coded to be played on a specific piece of hardware with all the same parts. So I wonder if PSX/PS2 games that try to access the rumble function of the controller will crash or if the PS3 will have some sort of workaround in its emulation.
To be in line with what Lucas did with StarWars, they should have made a Spaceballs prequel.
:-P
Perhaps they could have called it something like:
Spaceballs Episode 0: Attack of the Clone of the Phantom Prequel
It could have featured how Scroub met Dark Helmet.
Perhaps Dark Helmet being a student of Yoghurt and turning on him to join Scroub.
I'm sure many of slashdotters can relate to this.
High school is a cruel place. Its not easy being an outcast there. People will beat you up just because they don't like the way you dress, walk, or talk or for not having 'popular kid' interests/not being trendy. People will break or steal your belongings for the same reasons. Then when you call for help, your parents don't care as they are too busy with their selves. Your teachers/principals don't care because the bullies are star athletes that bring money into the school. And in some small towns like the one I grew up in, the police don't care because one of those bullies is the sheriff's son.
I not saying going on a shooting rampage is the answer but I guess sometimes a person has to start fighting back.
Unfortunately, guns tend to give instant courage to the meek and give the true victim what appears to them as an easy out....
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This program has been out for some time now and looks to be much more advanced than Teddy/Smooth Teddy/Magical Sketch.
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http://archipelis.dnsalias.com/~archipel/index.ht
If someone gets scammed, why should the bank cover the butt of the idiot who gave out their info?
In that case, the customer is in part at fault for their ignorance..
However, there is also the problem of banks that get hacked.
In that case, the bank had better cover the losses but I'm afraid the bank would push it off as a phishing case and try to weasel out of it...
Anywho, I wouldn't be surpised if banks started selling phishing insurance as an extra service to cover any losses...
Just like the bozos in congress that attach totally unrelated garbage to a bill trying to get passed, Microsoft will probably just attach it to another update that people will actually install...
The Guy from Bionic Commando
:-P
Kid Chameleon
Space Ace / Dexter (Forgot to mention him w/ Dirk The Daring)
Bald Bull or King Hippo from PunchOut.
Bomberman
Kid Niki
The Ninja from Ninja Gaiden (NES version)
If they did do Sonic, I'd like to see more characters from that series such as Tails, Knuckles and MetalSonic.
Stanley The Bugman from Donkey Kong 3
TMNT!
Megaman X and Zero
Sonic
Megaman
PacMan
Bonk
Crash Banditcoot
Banjo-Kazooie
RayMan
Strider
Shinobi
Arthur from (Ghosts N' Goblins)
Little Mac (Yes, I know he's a Nintendo Character)
Spiderman
Ryu (From Street Fighter)
Heihachi (From Tekken)
Dirk The Daring and Singe(From Dragon's Lair)
Gizmo and Stripe(From Gremlins)
Bub and Bob (From Bubble Bobble)
That's all I can think of for now...
Sheesh!
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2 years ago I recieved notice that there was a recall on my dell laptop's power supply and now the batteries are bad too?
In fact, if I remember correctly I do believe that Slashdot was what tipped me off to the previous recall....
Here is the link
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10
It would have been nice to see some pics of the Amiga GUIs, year by year to show how much nicer they were at the time compared to Apple's and Microsoft's.
Don't legalise drugs on the basis of taxing them. Sure, tax them like you'd tax any other good, but I hate using revenue to the state as a justification. The reason drugs should be legal is because people should have dominion over their own bodies.
Yeah, unfortunately certain kinds of drugs (like the smokable kind) effect the bodies of those around the user. Legalizing such drugs would give people the ok to use them in public and I'm sure there are many of us that don't want a contact buzz because some jackass wants to smoke weed or crack in a public place. Also, you give users a green light to use them while driving and operating dangerous equipment which does tend to effect the 'bodies' of others in the vacinity.
No more squeaky sex?
Why would a magnetic bed be a problem for my rubber love doll?
Now bringing my laptop to bed to surf for pr0n while masterbating in bed would be a problem....