Before GTA was big, I thought it would be fun to make a game where you're robbing banks and running away with loot. You have the wheelman, and the other 3 people in the car have weapons. All the windows are screens you can shoot out of. But its like anything else... If you don't have a corporation behind you backing your idea, it never flies.
There is an agenda to bring as many people to faith, and keep away things that may challlenge someone's faith. But I think Christians start off in every angle and don't strategize things through. For example,"I think the planets should be renamed because they're named after fake gods." And that may happen way down in the future, but its not something I want to push now. Right now, people should be doing plain ol evengalicizing like Jesus taught, or using the internet to bring people to faith. There are some fights that just can't be won with the level of faith people have now. If people gain more and more faith, God will help people out more and more too. I'm for intelligent design because I know its true, but I don't think that is the best place to spend my time and energy.
Its funny how many people think antivirus programs work. Someone's computer is compromised by a new virus, so its up to me to check it out. But then my mom looks over my shoulder and says,"Just run Anti-Virus and fix it." I get shocked looks when I say antivirus only stops at best 1% of viruses out there, never gets any of the new viruses stopped, and is mainly out just to grab your money off you.
I forgot to buy a case... So I carved out holes for the video card, and mouse/keyboard out of the cardboard box my motherboard was sent in. I don't leave the thing on overnight in case of fire though.
What extols affairs, bemoans and swears
Polls Rover your neighbors dog?
What's great for some flack a personal attack?
It's Blog, Blog. Blog!
It's Blog, Blog, its big, it's heavy, it could.
It's Blog, Blog, it's better than bad, it's good!
Everyone wants a Blog! You're gonna love it, Blog!
Come and get your Blog! Everyone needs a Blog!
When a person votes, the paper slides into a view slot: "You voted for Kang". Then they pull a lever, and the paper goes away for the next person. I think that way, you can't reconstruct who voted for who, but voters can watch for voter fraud themselves. Without letting the person view the paper trail, it could create a false paper trail as it goes along, and no one would ever know. Just a thought, I'm no expert. I was wondering how an expert would go about building a tamper proof voting machine.
Was Hot Coffee actually in the game with a cheat code? Or was it something a bunch of hackers did and changed the code? It still boggles my mind why Senators weren't upset with the gangster and other sexual things in the game.
The free Gimp port to windows saved me money I would have had to use on a commercial Photoshop. Its nice to have another piece of free software that belongs on every person's computer.
Even if fellow Christians aren't acting straight, I'd never be ashamed to be a Christian.
Maybe I'm ashamed to be a scientist though. There are so many posters that think science has done so much for the world, and is so superior to many other modes of thinking, that evolution 'has to be the cause of life.' If you start thinking about all the groups throughout history that thought they were better than other groups, you'll start seeing the danger of that way of thinking. Scientists are supposed to be free thinkers, that allow repeatable events to let them draw conclusions on the universe. There are some scientists that like to favor their own theories and fudge their own way, but they're mostly frowned upon by pure scientists. I think its foolish to rally around evolution as the definitive answer of life. I'll rally around F=MA or that the earth isn't the center of the galaxy or that its beneficial to genetically alter foods to have more to eat. But to get all high and mighty about science and its guesswork towards the origins of life is something I'll not want to be a part of.
I don't get the ultra feminist types that say busty women in games turns off women gamers. Women gamers weren't around when the games were as simple as pong and pac-man. Women gamers weren't aroud through berzerk and Rally-X. Women gamers didn't show up at the nintendo 8 bit era. In short, its not a new development that women gamers aren't interested in video games, they've always not been interested in video games. Now there are many women gamers out there, but nothing to contribute a significant percentage to male gamers. Anyone that's spent significant time in an arcade from the early 80s up until the recent 'death of arcades', has observed the overwhelming male percentage. The only time girls seem to like video games and stuff is when they're like under age 9 and going to Chucky Cheese, then it seems like it doesn't matter what sex you are.
So femenist types who like to overanalyze everything should stay away from overanalyzing video games. Unless they can give reasons why women never got interested in video games from the start.
As hard as I can to think of a myth, I can't. I'm just saying that those guys rock. One time I shot an arrow out of the air with a bb gun. It was pretty cool, it dropped almost straight down when I hit it too. I wasn't trying it though, just dumb luck.
It must be hard coming up with ideas of myths to bust. I think you guys should regularly stop on Slashdot, maybe once every 3 months, and see what ideas we got. I can't think about this flatfooted, but if I had 3-6 months to prepare, I could probably have 1 or 2 good ones for you guys.
Mod me up if you want MythBusters to check Slashdot every 6 months or so:)
There are some girls, albeit rare in US, that think pro gamers are hot. In South Korea, its more common and pop star singers to be hanging out with progamers. Theres no reason I should be hanging out in the states when I should be progaming Starcraft in Korea... I rocked that game far harder than I rocked Warcraft3, and I held #1 1v1,2v2,3v3 ladder all at the same time in Warcraft3.
If everyone has a computer(in some labs, and in the future), a monitored chat room can help learning a ton. For example: The teacher says something obscure, and the students want to know what it is, they can chat among their peers instead of disturbing the lecture. If no one knows in the class, they can interrupt the teacher. All talking would be logged so the teacher can see who's abusing the system after class.
Anyway, this old stuff rocks. I think I'll burn some onto CD, and when I cruise through the mall, I crank my stereo up playing 1910 Rag Time. My ex gf's brother used to blast Nursery Rhymes like the Muffin Man in the mall, I guess I want to be cool like him.
I use optical mice. When the computer is turned off, the optical mice are still glowing. I need to physically flip the power switch on the back of the computer to turn it off. Simply turning the computer off with the standard switch or using windows to shutdown the computer doesn't mean the thing isn't still eating juice. Also windows takes incredibly slow to shutdown, so I used to use the powerbutton. Somewhere between 95-2000, they changed the power button so it sends a signal to windows before it shuts down instead of brute forcing it. So nowadays, I am a fan of pulling the powercable out of the back of the machine to shut things off. It saves time and power, and sometimes its a way to prevent a virus from fully propogating on your system(yah I stopped a virus manually like this once).
I've also heard that its more efficient to leave your computer on all the time because the amount it costs in wear and tear on your computer is more than the power saved by doing it. Anyone hear of this rumor or know anything about it?
I'm all trying to play a game of capture the flag, and when I start to chase someone down, they swivel around 360 degrees and shoot me in the head with a railgun.
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Before GTA was big, I thought it would be fun to make a game where you're robbing banks and running away with loot. You have the wheelman, and the other 3 people in the car have weapons. All the windows are screens you can shoot out of. But its like anything else... If you don't have a corporation behind you backing your idea, it never flies.
There is an agenda to bring as many people to faith, and keep away things that may challlenge someone's faith. But I think Christians start off in every angle and don't strategize things through. For example,"I think the planets should be renamed because they're named after fake gods." And that may happen way down in the future, but its not something I want to push now. Right now, people should be doing plain ol evengalicizing like Jesus taught, or using the internet to bring people to faith. There are some fights that just can't be won with the level of faith people have now. If people gain more and more faith, God will help people out more and more too. I'm for intelligent design because I know its true, but I don't think that is the best place to spend my time and energy.
Its funny how many people think antivirus programs work. Someone's computer is compromised by a new virus, so its up to me to check it out. But then my mom looks over my shoulder and says,"Just run Anti-Virus and fix it." I get shocked looks when I say antivirus only stops at best 1% of viruses out there, never gets any of the new viruses stopped, and is mainly out just to grab your money off you.
I forgot to buy a case... So I carved out holes for the video card, and mouse/keyboard out of the cardboard box my motherboard was sent in. I don't leave the thing on overnight in case of fire though.
What extols affairs, bemoans and swears
Polls Rover your neighbors dog?
What's great for some flack a personal attack?
It's Blog, Blog. Blog!
It's Blog, Blog, its big, it's heavy, it could.
It's Blog, Blog, it's better than bad, it's good!
Everyone wants a Blog! You're gonna love it, Blog!
Come and get your Blog! Everyone needs a Blog!
I'm a fan of RPGS and MMOGs, but SWG had nothing fun in it at all for me, except the fact you should shoot while running, and that was sorta fun.
I think they should check back on Slashdot more often for ideas.
When a person votes, the paper slides into a view slot: "You voted for Kang". Then they pull a lever, and the paper goes away for the next person. I think that way, you can't reconstruct who voted for who, but voters can watch for voter fraud themselves. Without letting the person view the paper trail, it could create a false paper trail as it goes along, and no one would ever know. Just a thought, I'm no expert. I was wondering how an expert would go about building a tamper proof voting machine.
Was Hot Coffee actually in the game with a cheat code? Or was it something a bunch of hackers did and changed the code? It still boggles my mind why Senators weren't upset with the gangster and other sexual things in the game.
I'm not buying a book written by Jon Stewart.
The free Gimp port to windows saved me money I would have had to use on a commercial Photoshop. Its nice to have another piece of free software that belongs on every person's computer.
Even if fellow Christians aren't acting straight, I'd never be ashamed to be a Christian.
Maybe I'm ashamed to be a scientist though. There are so many posters that think science has done so much for the world, and is so superior to many other modes of thinking, that evolution 'has to be the cause of life.' If you start thinking about all the groups throughout history that thought they were better than other groups, you'll start seeing the danger of that way of thinking. Scientists are supposed to be free thinkers, that allow repeatable events to let them draw conclusions on the universe. There are some scientists that like to favor their own theories and fudge their own way, but they're mostly frowned upon by pure scientists. I think its foolish to rally around evolution as the definitive answer of life. I'll rally around F=MA or that the earth isn't the center of the galaxy or that its beneficial to genetically alter foods to have more to eat. But to get all high and mighty about science and its guesswork towards the origins of life is something I'll not want to be a part of.
I don't get the ultra feminist types that say busty women in games turns off women gamers. Women gamers weren't around when the games were as simple as pong and pac-man. Women gamers weren't aroud through berzerk and Rally-X. Women gamers didn't show up at the nintendo 8 bit era. In short, its not a new development that women gamers aren't interested in video games, they've always not been interested in video games. Now there are many women gamers out there, but nothing to contribute a significant percentage to male gamers. Anyone that's spent significant time in an arcade from the early 80s up until the recent 'death of arcades', has observed the overwhelming male percentage. The only time girls seem to like video games and stuff is when they're like under age 9 and going to Chucky Cheese, then it seems like it doesn't matter what sex you are.
So femenist types who like to overanalyze everything should stay away from overanalyzing video games. Unless they can give reasons why women never got interested in video games from the start.
As hard as I can to think of a myth, I can't. I'm just saying that those guys rock. One time I shot an arrow out of the air with a bb gun. It was pretty cool, it dropped almost straight down when I hit it too. I wasn't trying it though, just dumb luck.
:)
It must be hard coming up with ideas of myths to bust. I think you guys should regularly stop on Slashdot, maybe once every 3 months, and see what ideas we got. I can't think about this flatfooted, but if I had 3-6 months to prepare, I could probably have 1 or 2 good ones for you guys.
Mod me up if you want MythBusters to check Slashdot every 6 months or so
There are some girls, albeit rare in US, that think pro gamers are hot. In South Korea, its more common and pop star singers to be hanging out with progamers. Theres no reason I should be hanging out in the states when I should be progaming Starcraft in Korea... I rocked that game far harder than I rocked Warcraft3, and I held #1 1v1,2v2,3v3 ladder all at the same time in Warcraft3.
My favorite's always been: That was left handed!
If everyone has a computer(in some labs, and in the future), a monitored chat room can help learning a ton. For example: The teacher says something obscure, and the students want to know what it is, they can chat among their peers instead of disturbing the lecture. If no one knows in the class, they can interrupt the teacher. All talking would be logged so the teacher can see who's abusing the system after class.
Anyway, this old stuff rocks. I think I'll burn some onto CD, and when I cruise through the mall, I crank my stereo up playing 1910 Rag Time. My ex gf's brother used to blast Nursery Rhymes like the Muffin Man in the mall, I guess I want to be cool like him.
I use optical mice. When the computer is turned off, the optical mice are still glowing. I need to physically flip the power switch on the back of the computer to turn it off. Simply turning the computer off with the standard switch or using windows to shutdown the computer doesn't mean the thing isn't still eating juice. Also windows takes incredibly slow to shutdown, so I used to use the powerbutton. Somewhere between 95-2000, they changed the power button so it sends a signal to windows before it shuts down instead of brute forcing it. So nowadays, I am a fan of pulling the powercable out of the back of the machine to shut things off. It saves time and power, and sometimes its a way to prevent a virus from fully propogating on your system(yah I stopped a virus manually like this once).
I've also heard that its more efficient to leave your computer on all the time because the amount it costs in wear and tear on your computer is more than the power saved by doing it. Anyone hear of this rumor or know anything about it?
I think the addition of advertisements into the game would make it more entertaining.
Even after 1999, we have people who want to invest in a bubble market.
The first of the next gen video game machines hits store shelves next week. Should you get one?
The short answer: Not on Day One.
What if you plan on making money because of the shortages and selling one overpriced on ebay for an extra 100-500$?
How is this news?
I'm all trying to play a game of capture the flag, and when I start to chase someone down, they swivel around 360 degrees and shoot me in the head with a railgun.
I tried publishing something and it told me I published over 200 articles already. Then I clicked 'save draft', and it gave me an error.