I heard the analog version has better clarity and the ending is better, I can abide the digital versions nowwadays, so anyone got a warez torrent link to the analog copy?
Thanks, signed book plate for the first 5 torrents.
ZNXFBMK I wonder if every slashdotted article could hotlink the automated human test it would slow slashdot down? Automatic image generation isn't that hoopy fast.
Every phone contract is given a class, us low lifes are given a sim set to class 'D' which means scum off the earth. Class A is government officials etc. The class system is a priority.
All they do it lock out lower classes to make sure there is enough always free lines for emergency services.
No conspiracy or anything to do with stopping mobile based bombs incidentally, this is a seperate need, because the mobile network suck, and even around the lunch time 'hey tim what are *you* eating today' pointless phonecall nexus, it can be hard to avoid a 'network busy' signal.
If you get network busy, while trying to call in that you need more help at a location to rescue people, it won't be fun. I asked to have my class upgraded when I heard about this, after an hour on the phone I got through to someone who knew what i was talking about at Vodaphone, and they gave me their default deny spiele.
If someone writes a widget that places icons in the task tray, that only works on SCHOOMOO operating system, and then writes the Java class and JNI calls for this, but then goes and releases a new version of the widget, but doesn't update the Java classes.
+1 mod points to everyone who spotted this is neither anti-java or anti-Cocoa, in fact, it is pro Java because no Java developer wants to be bogged down with much non-portable code or mac only code.
I would wager than Apple was even nudged by some Java developers who said, yes, this was nice, but look, not much interest in it, we can use our own libraries and keep it cross platform.
This is GOOD for Apple, as this 'embrace the non-proprietary cross platform Java' rather than using Java Cocoa fixated programming, will mean more Java developers will target the Mac. Oooops! But they already do because Java is cross platform. Oh Hahah I am funny.
Now, sometimes you do want to access proprietary extensions, and in yesteryear, the extremely small quirky devices would give some benefits for being able to access their split bars, or their dialogue classes, so each platform had their own set of 'device API's', nothing too wrong with that, but with great power come great erm, device abstraction. Go spidey.
Anyway, it gives the effect of a 12" screen, it will look old sk00l, I'd like to play DoTT on this.
No worries about people driving with these on - they can just have google minimap, combined with yahoo traffic, in a small window alerting them if they need to break or change lane. Should be safe... erp.
Slap one of these into a Sony OQO, running linux. Get rid of the star trek look to them (I am sure they can be engineered to look like shades) and allow you to view past the display area, you could have an instant on viewer/HUD.
That would rox0r! lets hope they give these away for free if you buy into some ludicrous DRM'd tie in packages, and someone hacks them to give us great on the fly experiences.
I would use one of these instead of a monitor or LCD... just sit in a large leather sofa, with two handheld 'keysticks' (or joyboards) which allow full 104 key input with just your digits on both hands (like playing a sax, or clarinet... or some weird hybrid geek keyboard).
Not wearable computing, no, that is a ghey word, but ERGONOMIC computing. Don't sit at your desk, bring your desk to you. I think hands free was the first baby step in this whole thing.
I had a Blue Screen Of Death just 3 days ago on a fully updated WinXP that I have to use at work for some tasks, I am serious, I was even suprised myself, I laughed.
I was using a KVM, and I heard the windows box fan suddenly start up, so I hit '3' on the KVM and BLUE! baddabing I had no idea what happened.
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I find so many phishing sites still up a week after the email timestamp, when I finally check my phishy-email folder.
I email the url, and email to the site contacts, ISP, lots of other info. I am thinking of making a firefox plugin called ' report phish ' which will email from a whois lookup, the nameserver admin, the webserver admin, the hosting guys, any personal email found on that root site, also the reply to address or any valid address in the site, any company that is being scammed (paypal) PLUS the TLD owner countries ecrime police, plus the registered companies tld ecrime police.
If I install a vanilla windows 2003 web edition server, and someone hacks it, and puts up a phishing scam, is it Microsofts fault for installing a trjoan OS, no matter of intent as read, or do they cover themselves by saying this product is not designed to be connected to a public network?
It is sure as hell advertised as such, and I think them not having liability (or any other server manuf.) is like a car company making cars with failing brakes, and saying these cars are not meant to be driven in the small print.
Or is it my fault for being stupid enough to think I can run a web host out of the box?
Interestingly, as everyone gets a 10mbit connection, surely hosting companies are screwed? Artificially stopping people hosting their own websites is like telcos stopping VoIP.
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Not enough free space on/dev/null (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? &@!#**!@ THING!!!
Not enough free space on/dev/null (A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? I HATE BILL!!!
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I didn't say I agree with it, but kida play mortal combat, doom, quake, the realistic modern settings in GTA, and the more relevance in the violence is something, but suffice to say steal cars and performing drive by shootings with a controller, is not a far cry from stealing a horse and shooting your friends in the back with your sellotaped together plastic rifle.
Lets put that into perspective. Play shooting, and some more serious material, like sniping innocents from a tower.
I put the jetpack cheat on last not yecgaa, the fact I remember it is testimony to the fact that I got back into playing GTA - I flew above roofs tops and towers, and many highly situated points have sniper rifles just waiting for you to take out innocents.
Actually, come to think of it, children read about this all the time, so my prior argument about violent content in games is the same as books kinda stands ground, BUT sexual or graphical torture or a deeper level of hate/violence, less absracted, is actually disturbing.
Firstly, Art has been made from automated 'mechanisms' before, so unless the art is PROGRAMMATICALLY and controlled in its development (be it sculpture or canvas) then it cannot be said to be intelligent, or robotic design. Merely mechnical design.
Now, that out of the way (we can piss on the graves of all the assholes with a set of beating whips and a can of paint) there is a second idea:
Art is, literally, effort, a work of some kind. Aesthetics and various genres complicate things. But each piece of art (forget photography for a moment, although that is a valid art form, the art is setting the scene, the technique is pushing the button with the right settings) is an interpretation. NOT PERFECTION as some uneducated people think (perfection to an idea, not photorealism).
So, for a piece of art to be 'robotic' then there must be an interpretation between a concept, and execution of that concept, and the ability of the machine to correct, and evolve the piece based on the way it can percieve some data that represents the idea, or even create a new idea based on an input, such as a visual stimulus.
Then a robot could, with limited boundaries of comprehension (in terms of what is programmed) capture a visual stimulus, and use it to generate a representation, or merely add it to the cake mix of their mad idea.
Anything that is basically a macro, supplied to a mechnical device, is wrong. EVEN IF THE MACRO is a randomised type 'random art' or computer generated art.
So, taking 'computer generated art' and sending it to, basically, a complex pringting device is NOT ROBOTIC ART.
I will be very suprised if 1 piece of robotic art is truly robotic art in the next 5 years. (or ever, depending on your definition)
Are you saying that, somehow, those crazy clever guys at Redmond have, and please, give this the respect it deserves, allowed people to fill out forms in a browser without a plugin! I am sure they must have patented this a million times to secure such a monumental change in the course of computer history.
Now those 2bit hackers on all those open source programs that include their own web front end (shareaza, VNC apps) (i.e. support 'AitchTeeTeePee' Some mythical, some say made-up, protocol that allows people to request document, and GET POST, PUT DELETE and OPTION (although we usually just get and put).
I think someone needs a nobel prize for inventing this!!! Amazing software innovations! Any open source projects who have been providing this functionality SHOULD STOP because it is not right to hurt Microsofts ability to dupe people into buying Office 12, please be nice to them, goodness, they need ot make this one a success or people will jump ship faster than Vienna.
I have to disagree. I think ratings are important, should be accurate, and should reflect NOT your opinions, but the content of the film. For films, it might suprise you that some people don't want to see graphic gore, torture, pain and violence suprising them in a film that looked much less violent in the trailers.
In this instance, I have argued previously that many non-violent adult themes were palced into GTA for:
a) laughs b) enjoyment c) more laughs d) to assert that this is definately a game for adults.
People who are anti-game-violence, and people who are 'anti-anti-gameviolence' and well as those pro-gaming violence (of which I would say i am one) get this all wrong.
Even with a mature rating, a purely violent game would be immediately pounced upon as marketting to children. If you can somehow put sex in there, you can really show that you are not trying to appeal to children, but an adult audience.
Hitting all the 'adult content' points is important therefore.
Now, Postal is a bloody marvelous game. And Hitman, but postal for a different reason. I completed the demo in about 1 minute. I walked to the shop, bought milk, went home. I won!! Hurrah!
Now, if that was what was shown to the ESRB, then it would have had a E and a smiley face. However, one time I accidentally pissed on a woman, and then hit her in the face with a shovel, and proceeded to douse her in petrol and light her on fire. Ooops! Now that kind of content is not suitable for children in any for, be in in a book, on a film, or in a video game.
The book is an important point, we are not just talking about graphical depictions, but the acts themselves.
I agree with the guy bringing this up, I suspected someone would, and I am glad they did. If this content had been in a game with a lower rating, and the content had been in stark contrast to the game (as it is, I do not really like that content, it makes me feel like I am playing a cheap 'playboy mansion' or 'Leisure Suit Larry' game (oh that vibrating black censor box when you had sex, I can't believe we wondered if you could actually turn that off!).
I do not agree (or know of) his agenda, but they deserve a slap on the wrist. You actually simulate sex, and although I thought it was cool, it really is offensive content (although they can both be clothed) It makes you tap in rhythm, and says your the man when she cums. Many parents bought this game KNOWING its violence, and let their kids use it, but if they knew of such adult content, then they would not have, ok it is not easily accessible, but kids on forums want to try everything.
While I agree with your points, the fact remains rockstar are in the wrong, if noone had found it, they would have got away with it, but it seems like they wanted someone to find it, and generate a second wave of buzz (for kicks, or, even more $$$).
Are usually staffed by some pretty decent folks, and verisign are the scum of the earth, and I can quickly see them pricing themselves out of the DNS market. People are realizing the power of a.com is like a rose... or was that... anyway, the smells like shit *confused*.
Since the community of web developers is thankfully separated from the hyperventilating MOOCFA crowd (make our own crazy fly acronyms) (for an indepth reference, read this insightful article) I can see that the google warriors of our time will find ways to drop the.net, and basically give the finger to verisign.
After the fuss they caused breaking the whole damn internet, I don't think many people in technical decision making/planning roles (which I would guestimate would cover 80% of.net purchases) would really want to be ass-fucked by them.
Check out that link (here) you will like it, and it saves me some keystrokes harping on about hyperventilating eunuchs.
Having read the ctrl-f comment below: You cannot ctrl-f highlight multiple words.
Having highlighting on a page from a search is nice, plus the PAGERANK is a useful tool in itself for web designers. I would be interested in this, although I loath to loose screen space.
How about have the Menu bar hideable?
I only ever use tools / extensions (page info being available on right click to get to media tab)
Hoarding is rife in all digital areas: People hoard ebooks, which makes some sense, all that knowledge seems to make your computer heavier, has a reference use. I know someone who collected XYZ# of O'Reilly books, I thought he was a twat anyway.
Google is the ultimate hoard. Its all there for us to access, although, I think yesterday something happened with google, some searches I do frequently to find certain pages stopped working, and not just the 8 week reshuffle I think google has changed fundemantally yesterday, and it'll be a while for all the hyperventillating bloggers to latch onto it, and claim the discovery.
Anyway, back on track, from MUDS to MMORPGS, people hoard lint, dead skin, orc bones, empty vials, epired credit cards, anything really.
From UO to WoW this happens. I read a great srticle linked from/. about property value, and that guy stabbing his (ex)friend for selling his virtual artifact, hilarious, in a morbid way.
Status online is seeping into our offline world. But with music and film, and books, it is slightly different.
I would like to lookup any play on my TV, using a bluetooth remote, flick through it, link to a video of that play, so watch Merchant of Venice, or Romeo and Juliet, and have the text on a PDA in front of me. Convenience, and added functionality.
We want convenient, 'when I want' access to all this media, and right now, the only way to do this, is to hoard it painstakingly.
When we have this easy free flowing google like access, then we would gladly micropay for it, in leiu of actually hoarding it.
The first time I played GTA, I went out, stole all the fancy cars, and drove them back to my compound, and marvelled at them. I envisaged an online world where you could mod you cars and show them off, and have the biggest collection of cars.
Virtual material items are no longer immaterial, look at the 'rarity' values of items in games. In neopets (I had to try it) items are given rarity ratings. This is like an economy.
About 15 years ago I thought online we would all have out own 3d room, furnished (ideas taken from habitat) and be able to transmit our own tv stations to other people virtual homes, which could project into their real living room, onto their real tv... now the technoogy is there... and we are all our killing slugs and monsters to get bones to make a shield, to buy a horse...
Always suffix your post with you 7 letter automated human test word.
Browser are to have http, https and ftp protocols supported in time for London 2012.
Some rumours persist that 'Web Suite' software will also support IMAP, POP3, SMTP and even gopher protocols.
In addition, new protocols like klik:// irc:// and magnet links can be added by users.
The torrent:// is a protocol. They implement it. Now you can download files using that protocol.
To call this revolutionary, no. To call it, well, about time, Yes.
I think it took a while for 'torrent' to fulyl saturate peoples conscience as 'just another way to move bits around, hence copy files'.
My irk is, torrents and P2P tend to choke your network, even at low speeds, because of the swarming of threads, maybe it is just my antique w2k circa 1998 stack that cannot handle such modern crazy stuff.
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Breaking systems in cars have to work, why not say a server that interprets http/1.1 requests be fit for its purpose.
I say that regardless of intent, a buffer overflow is a trojan. With free software, is it warranty-free.
Microsoft on the other hand should be the ones having fines for each breach, and ensure safety in their software.
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Researchers have found that compression of the soles of the feet, combined with stimulating the nerve endings increases blood flow to the feet.
I hope they got a banana for their sterling efforts
Just incase the hyperventillating bloggers pick up this story, the correct magic word is down-sampling.
For an insightful, and balanced view into blogging read this article
I heard the analog version has better clarity and the ending is better, I can abide the digital versions nowwadays, so anyone got a warez torrent link to the analog copy?
Thanks, signed book plate for the first 5 torrents.
ZNXFBMK I wonder if every slashdotted article could hotlink the automated human test it would slow slashdot down? Automatic image generation isn't that hoopy fast.
I use an Axim X30H, 624mhz, nice chips, crappy proprietary though, struggle to remove the 'toy' OS it ships with, and get real power out of it.
:-) Apple to move into sex PDA sector? Forgt linux on PDAs? Stick MacOSeXI on your PDA? nice
But, shock horror, are they implying Apple made the decision to swich to intel based on business and financial decisions a planning?
They must be mad, I just know there is a conspiracy somewhere!
Apple PDA soon? (ARM architecture?) Like the OQO?
Every phone contract is given a class, us low lifes are given a sim set to class 'D' which means scum off the earth. Class A is government officials etc. The class system is a priority.
All they do it lock out lower classes to make sure there is enough always free lines for emergency services.
No conspiracy or anything to do with stopping mobile based bombs incidentally, this is a seperate need, because the mobile network suck, and even around the lunch time 'hey tim what are *you* eating today' pointless phonecall nexus, it can be hard to avoid a 'network busy' signal.
If you get network busy, while trying to call in that you need more help at a location to rescue people, it won't be fun. I asked to have my class upgraded when I heard about this, after an hour on the phone I got through to someone who knew what i was talking about at Vodaphone, and they gave me their default deny spiele.
5, 4, 3, Main engines go, and blast off.
All systems nominal, main thrusters green. SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB! Just kidding guys.
Hey this Camera 42, is a bit shaky, must be the thruster resonance... should be nothing.
500 meters and climbing.. looking good!
*CLUNK* Houston, we erm, have a logitech device embedded into our windshield... were burning up, argh argh araaaaargh.
Ground control: Major Tom? Toooom? Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
Lesson: Don't spend loads of money fixing up a flight model to be stable, and then duct tape some random cameras to it.
Mmmmmmmmmm.... Apple
If someone writes a widget that places icons in the task tray, that only works on SCHOOMOO operating system, and then writes the Java class and JNI calls for this, but then goes and releases a new version of the widget, but doesn't update the Java classes.
+1 mod points to everyone who spotted this is neither anti-java or anti-Cocoa, in fact, it is pro Java because no Java developer wants to be bogged down with much non-portable code or mac only code.
I would wager than Apple was even nudged by some Java developers who said, yes, this was nice, but look, not much interest in it, we can use our own libraries and keep it cross platform.
This is GOOD for Apple, as this 'embrace the non-proprietary cross platform Java' rather than using Java Cocoa fixated programming, will mean more Java developers will target the Mac. Oooops! But they already do because Java is cross platform. Oh Hahah I am funny.
Now, sometimes you do want to access proprietary extensions, and in yesteryear, the extremely small quirky devices would give some benefits for being able to access their split bars, or their dialogue classes, so each platform had their own set of 'device API's', nothing too wrong with that, but with great power come great erm, device abstraction. Go spidey.
Anyway, it gives the effect of a 12" screen, it will look old sk00l, I'd like to play DoTT on this.
No worries about people driving with these on - they can just have google minimap, combined with yahoo traffic, in a small window alerting them if they need to break or change lane. Should be safe... erp.
fuck-tard.
Slap one of these into a Sony OQO, running linux. Get rid of the star trek look to them (I am sure they can be engineered to look like shades) and allow you to view past the display area, you could have an instant on viewer/HUD.
That would rox0r! lets hope they give these away for free if you buy into some ludicrous DRM'd tie in packages, and someone hacks them to give us great on the fly experiences.
I would use one of these instead of a monitor or LCD... just sit in a large leather sofa, with two handheld 'keysticks' (or joyboards) which allow full 104 key input with just your digits on both hands (like playing a sax, or clarinet... or some weird hybrid geek keyboard).
Not wearable computing, no, that is a ghey word, but ERGONOMIC computing. Don't sit at your desk, bring your desk to you. I think hands free was the first baby step in this whole thing.
I had a Blue Screen Of Death just 3 days ago on a fully updated WinXP that I have to use at work for some tasks, I am serious, I was even suprised myself, I laughed.
I was using a KVM, and I heard the windows box fan suddenly start up, so I hit '3' on the KVM and BLUE! baddabing I had no idea what happened.
i wok at bank weth fiv otur giys wee al expirts!!1!
I find so many phishing sites still up a week after the email timestamp, when I finally check my phishy-email folder.
I email the url, and email to the site contacts, ISP, lots of other info. I am thinking of making a firefox plugin called ' report phish ' which will email from a whois lookup, the nameserver admin, the webserver admin, the hosting guys, any personal email found on that root site, also the reply to address or any valid address in the site, any company that is being scammed (paypal) PLUS the TLD owner countries ecrime police, plus the registered companies tld ecrime police.
If I install a vanilla windows 2003 web edition server, and someone hacks it, and puts up a phishing scam, is it Microsofts fault for installing a trjoan OS, no matter of intent as read, or do they cover themselves by saying this product is not designed to be connected to a public network?
It is sure as hell advertised as such, and I think them not having liability (or any other server manuf.) is like a car company making cars with failing brakes, and saying these cars are not meant to be driven in the small print.
Or is it my fault for being stupid enough to think I can run a web host out of the box?
Interestingly, as everyone gets a 10mbit connection, surely hosting companies are screwed? Artificially stopping people hosting their own websites is like telcos stopping VoIP.
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I didn't say I agree with it, but kida play mortal combat, doom, quake, the realistic modern settings in GTA, and the more relevance in the violence is something, but suffice to say steal cars and performing drive by shootings with a controller, is not a far cry from stealing a horse and shooting your friends in the back with your sellotaped together plastic rifle.
Lets put that into perspective. Play shooting, and some more serious material, like sniping innocents from a tower.
I put the jetpack cheat on last not yecgaa, the fact I remember it is testimony to the fact that I got back into playing GTA - I flew above roofs tops and towers, and many highly situated points have sniper rifles just waiting for you to take out innocents.
Actually, come to think of it, children read about this all the time, so my prior argument about violent content in games is the same as books kinda stands ground, BUT sexual or graphical torture or a deeper level of hate/violence, less absracted, is actually disturbing.
This is what I do actually, I won't give it out (obviously) but it is fairly simple.
I realise many people sign up with an email address, and give the same password as their email address to the website.
Hahah, silly.
It was about making cute looking robots, not cute looking robots making art.
I suck. Move along, nothing to see.
Firstly, Art has been made from automated 'mechanisms' before, so unless the art is PROGRAMMATICALLY and controlled in its development (be it sculpture or canvas) then it cannot be said to be intelligent, or robotic design. Merely mechnical design.
Now, that out of the way (we can piss on the graves of all the assholes with a set of beating whips and a can of paint) there is a second idea:
Art is, literally, effort, a work of some kind. Aesthetics and various genres complicate things. But each piece of art (forget photography for a moment, although that is a valid art form, the art is setting the scene, the technique is pushing the button with the right settings) is an interpretation. NOT PERFECTION as some uneducated people think (perfection to an idea, not photorealism).
So, for a piece of art to be 'robotic' then there must be an interpretation between a concept, and execution of that concept, and the ability of the machine to correct, and evolve the piece based on the way it can percieve some data that represents the idea, or even create a new idea based on an input, such as a visual stimulus.
Then a robot could, with limited boundaries of comprehension (in terms of what is programmed) capture a visual stimulus, and use it to generate a representation, or merely add it to the cake mix of their mad idea.
Anything that is basically a macro, supplied to a mechnical device, is wrong. EVEN IF THE MACRO is a randomised type 'random art' or computer generated art.
So, taking 'computer generated art' and sending it to, basically, a complex pringting device is NOT ROBOTIC ART.
I will be very suprised if 1 piece of robotic art is truly robotic art in the next 5 years. (or ever, depending on your definition)
Are you saying that, somehow, those crazy clever guys at Redmond have, and please, give this the respect it deserves, allowed people to fill out forms in a browser without a plugin! I am sure they must have patented this a million times to secure such a monumental change in the course of computer history.
Now those 2bit hackers on all those open source programs that include their own web front end (shareaza, VNC apps) (i.e. support 'AitchTeeTeePee' Some mythical, some say made-up, protocol that allows people to request document, and GET POST, PUT DELETE and OPTION (although we usually just get and put).
I think someone needs a nobel prize for inventing this!!! Amazing software innovations!
Any open source projects who have been providing this functionality SHOULD STOP because it is not right to hurt Microsofts ability to dupe people into buying Office 12, please be nice to them, goodness, they need ot make this one a success or people will jump ship faster than Vienna.
Something they wrote, for the single reason that they could advertise that you do not need it if you upgrade to Office 12.
So upgrade quickly, or one heck of a sack of InfoPath is on its way to you.
I have to disagree. I think ratings are important, should be accurate, and should reflect NOT your opinions, but the content of the film. For films, it might suprise you that some people don't want to see graphic gore, torture, pain and violence suprising them in a film that looked much less violent in the trailers.
In this instance, I have argued previously that many non-violent adult themes were palced into GTA for:
a) laughs
b) enjoyment
c) more laughs
d) to assert that this is definately a game for adults.
People who are anti-game-violence, and people who are 'anti-anti-gameviolence' and well as those pro-gaming violence (of which I would say i am one) get this all wrong.
Even with a mature rating, a purely violent game would be immediately pounced upon as marketting to children. If you can somehow put sex in there, you can really show that you are not trying to appeal to children, but an adult audience.
Hitting all the 'adult content' points is important therefore.
Now, Postal is a bloody marvelous game. And Hitman, but postal for a different reason. I completed the demo in about 1 minute. I walked to the shop, bought milk, went home. I won!! Hurrah!
Now, if that was what was shown to the ESRB, then it would have had a E and a smiley face. However, one time I accidentally pissed on a woman, and then hit her in the face with a shovel, and proceeded to douse her in petrol and light her on fire. Ooops! Now that kind of content is not suitable for children in any for, be in in a book, on a film, or in a video game.
The book is an important point, we are not just talking about graphical depictions, but the acts themselves.
I agree with the guy bringing this up, I suspected someone would, and I am glad they did. If this content had been in a game with a lower rating, and the content had been in stark contrast to the game (as it is, I do not really like that content, it makes me feel like I am playing a cheap 'playboy mansion' or 'Leisure Suit Larry' game (oh that vibrating black censor box when you had sex, I can't believe we wondered if you could actually turn that off!).
I do not agree (or know of) his agenda, but they deserve a slap on the wrist. You actually simulate sex, and although I thought it was cool, it really is offensive content (although they can both be clothed) It makes you tap in rhythm, and says your the man when she cums. Many parents bought this game KNOWING its violence, and let their kids use it, but if they knew of such adult content, then they would not have, ok it is not easily accessible, but kids on forums want to try everything.
While I agree with your points, the fact remains rockstar are in the wrong, if noone had found it, they would have got away with it, but it seems like they wanted someone to find it, and generate a second wave of buzz (for kicks, or, even more $$$).
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Are usually staffed by some pretty decent folks, and verisign are the scum of the earth, and I can quickly see them pricing themselves out of the DNS market. People are realizing the power of a .com is like a rose... or was that... anyway, the smells like shit *confused*.
.net, and basically give the finger to verisign.
.net purchases) would really want to be ass-fucked by them.
Since the community of web developers is thankfully separated from the hyperventilating MOOCFA crowd (make our own crazy fly acronyms) (for an indepth reference, read this insightful article) I can see that the google warriors of our time will find ways to drop the
After the fuss they caused breaking the whole damn internet, I don't think many people in technical decision making/planning roles (which I would guestimate would cover 80% of
Check out that link (here) you will like it, and it saves me some keystrokes harping on about hyperventilating eunuchs.
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Having read the ctrl-f comment below: You cannot ctrl-f highlight multiple words.
Having highlighting on a page from a search is nice, plus the PAGERANK is a useful tool in itself for web designers. I would be interested in this, although I loath to loose screen space.
How about have the Menu bar hideable?
I only ever use tools / extensions (page info being available on right click to get to media tab)
Hoarding is rife in all digital areas: People hoard ebooks, which makes some sense, all that knowledge seems to make your computer heavier, has a reference use. I know someone who collected XYZ# of O'Reilly books, I thought he was a twat anyway.
/. about property value, and that guy stabbing his (ex)friend for selling his virtual artifact, hilarious, in a morbid way.
Google is the ultimate hoard. Its all there for us to access, although, I think yesterday something happened with google, some searches I do frequently to find certain pages stopped working, and not just the 8 week reshuffle I think google has changed fundemantally yesterday, and it'll be a while for all the hyperventillating bloggers to latch onto it, and claim the discovery.
Anyway, back on track, from MUDS to MMORPGS, people hoard lint, dead skin, orc bones, empty vials, epired credit cards, anything really.
From UO to WoW this happens. I read a great srticle linked from
Status online is seeping into our offline world. But with music and film, and books, it is slightly different.
I would like to lookup any play on my TV, using a bluetooth remote, flick through it, link to a video of that play, so watch Merchant of Venice, or Romeo and Juliet, and have the text on a PDA in front of me. Convenience, and added functionality.
We want convenient, 'when I want' access to all this media, and right now, the only way to do this, is to hoard it painstakingly.
When we have this easy free flowing google like access, then we would gladly micropay for it, in leiu of actually hoarding it.
The first time I played GTA, I went out, stole all the fancy cars, and drove them back to my compound, and marvelled at them. I envisaged an online world where you could mod you cars and show them off, and have the biggest collection of cars.
Virtual material items are no longer immaterial, look at the 'rarity' values of items in games. In neopets (I had to try it) items are given rarity ratings. This is like an economy.
About 15 years ago I thought online we would all have out own 3d room, furnished (ideas taken from habitat) and be able to transmit our own tv stations to other people virtual homes, which could project into their real living room, onto their real tv... now the technoogy is there... and we are all our killing slugs and monsters to get bones to make a shield, to buy a horse...
Always suffix your post with you 7 letter automated human test word.
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Browser are to have http, https and ftp protocols supported in time for London 2012.
Some rumours persist that 'Web Suite' software will also support IMAP, POP3, SMTP and even gopher protocols.
In addition, new protocols like klik:// irc:// and magnet links can be added by users.
The torrent:// is a protocol. They implement it. Now you can download files using that protocol.
To call this revolutionary, no. To call it, well, about time, Yes.
I think it took a while for 'torrent' to fulyl saturate peoples conscience as 'just another way to move bits around, hence copy files'.
My irk is, torrents and P2P tend to choke your network, even at low speeds, because of the swarming of threads, maybe it is just my antique w2k circa 1998 stack that cannot handle such modern crazy stuff.
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