....wouldnt this lead to reduced profits by haliburton & co. after we've "awarded" them their contracts to rebuild iraq's oil industry? after all, if we could meet these theoretical production levels then our dependance on foreign oil just shot thru the floor. i guess they'd still have france and germany as customers, but (pardon me if im wrong, as its been awhile since my last economics class) doesnt price come down with demand?
if this is true, how hard do you think this will be fought by our resident oil tyrants?
AOL: hello, distributor! thanks for holding, your call is important to us! what can we do for you today?
Distributor: um, we dont want you to PVR our show as it is "special" programming
AOL: ah, thats not good! tell you what, how about i give you 2 free months to evaluate and you can let us know after that if you still want to do this...
Distributor: uh, no. ive already been on hold for 2 and a half hours. i just want to stop it now.
AOL: what?!? why dont you want 2 free months? how could you turn down such a great deal?? i'm signing you up for it right now!
Distributor: WHAT?!? NO! I've already told you, I DONT--
AOL: --Alright! all signed up! thanks for calling AOL today!::click::
Distributor: well son of a bitch...
so there IS a use for that game! seriously, agent under fire is quite possibly the very worst FPS-style game EVER made, so i actually feel kind of bad that people (albeit a small group) actually has a reason to support such a piece of crap. but on the bright side, i think march's issue of computer gaming monthly has a nice guide for what you can do with your worthless game disc once you realize it is NOT to be placed in your console (or PC) ever, EVER again!
...DVDs and DVD games would work fine, but PS1 and regular CD games (those with a black/purple background are regular CDs) would come up with a Disk Read Error almost every time
mine started out the exact opposite. dvd movies and games would get disk read errors while ps1 and regular format games would work fine. and the dvds could be made to work with a little patience in constantly ejecting and re-reading until it worked. that progressively got worse and now it reads absolutely nothing whatsoever no matter what crazy things one may try and attempt to get it to read.
and yes, ive cleaned the lens. not sure if i want to play with voltages tho. ill read the site when i get home (see previous post about evil internet blocking at work) thanks.
sony's site has a number you can call. i would post a link here, but i'm at work and sony's site is blocked, so i wouldnt be able to do anything better than www.sony.com.
my contempt for the internet filters at my place of work are to be saved for a completely different discussion...
at least your ps2 still works...
mine was NOT in the batch that got recalled (according to the nice sony representative i spoke with not so long ago) which means that ill have to ship my console to them for a new laser, which i will have to pay for...and will come out to cost more than a brand new unit. so until they bring it down to a reasonable cost, i'll just go without one.
oh and by the way, the thing that irritates me the most about the whole situation is that the laser started to go to shit on me less than a year after purchase...want to know how my original NES (bought in 1985) is doing? well, last night i enjoyed a session of gyromite with R.O.B....yes even the FUCKING ROBOT still works as beautifully as the day i bought it!
oh, and speaking of the south, a friend of mine in georgia actually saw a commercial for this a couple of days ago. i think its damn funny.
go ahead and mod me offtopic if think i deserve it even if it does follow the parent post....
how old are these things? i havent seen one in years! right now at work we're phasing out the G74 series and those are early 17 inch models. right now, our instructions are to immediately replace any 15 inch monitors we come across and add them to our "junk" box
...while it has no plans to charge consumers for the existing service...
phew, alright then. i stopped reading there as that is all i was concerned with. glad they put it close to the beginning, heh. i thought for sure they were about to make ICQ or one of their competetors the NEW number 1 instant messaging program. glad to hear i won't be having to inform my friends of a new screenname on another service.
as soon as AOL starts charging for instant messenger, I (and probably the rest of the world) will move on.
I would think that rendering our current method of digital encryption (factoring very large prime numbers) absolutely useless would be worth a little more than a million bucks! i would be expecting something more along the lines of the NSA's budget for a year or something like that...but, hey, thats just me...
What does 64-bit computing have anything to do with how much RAM one needs
its not how much you need that he's talking about. only with 64 bit computing can one have more than the current limit of RAM (which i believe is 2GB right now). it has to do with the maximum possible number of 32 bit addresses can exist in the RAM. so with a 64 bit processor, you can have enough ram to hold that database all at once time.
....i thought it was integrated and couldnt be sold seperately??? wasnt that part of their argument at the monopoly trials? if they can break it up into components for those guys, why the HELL can't they do it for us here in the states? seems unfair to me...i dont want to pay hundreds of dollars for an operating system that is only nessessary for games, yet here i am...
so let me get this straight...program judges a song based on how much it sounds like the other "hits" (read: crap) already out there. if it sounds enough like the other stuff then it is judged to be a potential hit. so tell me, how exactly does this promote new sounds and styles? especially if this is accepted by any major labels! "gee, this song doesnt do very well on our hitability software. drop their royalties to.0000003% and stop paying to have it played on the radio. oh, this other one does well! their royalties will be.0003% and we'll have the shit played out of it! we're gonna be billionaires!"
4-18 dollars for the service AND exclusive to AOL users (~25 dollars). so, for 29-43 dollars a month (and i assume it will be at the higher end of that) i get an AOL-quality internet connection (read: shitty) and all the music i want...sort of (how good is their selection going to be?).
on the other hand, i pay 30 bucks a month for DSL (read: excellent) and get all the music i want...no strings attached
hold on a second.....thinking.....alright, nope. still not worth it.
sell the secret technology you use for serving up so many freakin web hits!
oh i think the "secret technology" is the appropriate use of text over graphics....something that web designers out there (especially the ones that get slashdotted) seem to need more practice with. mind you, this is a very general comment and i am well aware of exceptions. also, there have been times where slashdot loads fairly slow and im guessing its due to traffic.
This might be offtopic.. but wouldn't be an improvement to the slashcode if the links could be redirected (wrapped) to a system that could queue the requests..........this way remote servers wouldn't "die" like this..
oh come on, now! where's the fun in that? a good portion of slashdot comments are new and witty ways to say that the site is gone! for example, i read the most hilarious comment earlier that said the modder was "obviously using M$" since the site was down! brilliant!
if slashcode were improved to eliminate this "slashdot effect", then we wouldn't be enriched with comments such as these anymore. /sarcasm
...do something similiar on yahoo already? how do they figure out their buzz index? because i thought it was based on buzzwords. mind you, its buzz words in hyperlink format, but its still the same concept i think
no, man. i just avoid my tickets by hacking into the police database (by typing "bypass" at the terminal) and then deleting them. that way its more FUN for everyone! remember, im an eXtreme programmer, so i need to get my thrills!
if they can't (or won't) sell it to me, does that constitute theft, piracy, or lost sale numbers in Hilary's eyes?
yes, yes it does you dirty little theif! now come turn yourself and your 57.2 (re-calculated from actual number based on speed) illegal cd burners in to the proper authorities!
so you're looking for accurate depictions of software programmers in movies? i hope this helps!
i usually roll out of bed around 11 or noon (up all night clubbin wit da ladies!) and drive to work in my brand new hummer, completely disregarding traffic signals, speed limits and roads in general. assuming there arent any high speed chases with the bad guys on the way, i make it in to work in time for the boss to yell at me again for "violating protocol" again! im such an eXtreme programmer and i do things my way! thats about when the terrorists show up to the building to take my girlfriend hostage, forcing me to have to fight them all with my bare hands and the occasional uzi taken from fallen enemies (everyone else is taken hostage too, so im the only one that can fight). since im so ripped, i can streetfight anyone and win easily! at around 4 or 5 pm i manage to get to the leader and fight him to the death at the top of the building, throwing him off in the process. once i get my woman back, we get it on and then im off to the clubs for the night! but trouble arises at the club......
oh wait, you want honesty? well heres honesty: unless its a comedy, dont make movies about software developers!
ah, well yeah....calling it "satellite cable" is probably stupid...of course, you probably already understand that i meant satellite broadcasted television signal...usually what is referred to as "cable tv"
as for cost issue...people NOT paying for their service is definitely not good for business, im sure you can agree with that....now you just have to realize that once the signal is decrypted, that information (how to decrypt the signal) will be spread around to anyone wanting to drop that monthly bill, and dont kid yourself: the people who cracked the signal know this and would definitely accept some cash in exchange for this info....so DirecTV now has to be constantly investing in R&D just to keep ahead of the people hacking the signal and sharing their methods.
so, yes...directly, there is nothing lost by "grabbing the signal" already coming to your house....but it still ends up costing money to the provider down the line
DirecTV won't sell me their service because of where I live.....as they *will not allow me* to give them money. So why shouldn't I decrypt the information?
maybe that could be a good argument if it were true...if you are on the internet, then id say your chances of being out of range of any kind of cable provider are slim to none.
plus, them not wanting to sell you service is their right and does NOT entitle you to steal their service, regardless of how little money the lose from your actions (and, yes...stealing satellite cable does still cost them resources)! For example, if i had the money, i would want to buy myself a harrier jet...but guess what, I WONT GET ONE! why not? because the military wont sell it to me! so does that give me the right to break into a military compound and STEAL one? i think not!
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....wouldnt this lead to reduced profits by haliburton & co. after we've "awarded" them their contracts to rebuild iraq's oil industry? after all, if we could meet these theoretical production levels then our dependance on foreign oil just shot thru the floor. i guess they'd still have france and germany as customers, but (pardon me if im wrong, as its been awhile since my last economics class) doesnt price come down with demand?
if this is true, how hard do you think this will be fought by our resident oil tyrants?
or even better:
::click::
AOL: hello, distributor! thanks for holding, your call is important to us! what can we do for you today?
Distributor: um, we dont want you to PVR our show as it is "special" programming
AOL: ah, thats not good! tell you what, how about i give you 2 free months to evaluate and you can let us know after that if you still want to do this...
Distributor: uh, no. ive already been on hold for 2 and a half hours. i just want to stop it now.
AOL: what?!? why dont you want 2 free months? how could you turn down such a great deal?? i'm signing you up for it right now!
Distributor: WHAT?!? NO! I've already told you, I DONT--
AOL: --Alright! all signed up! thanks for calling AOL today!
Distributor: well son of a bitch...
so there IS a use for that game! seriously, agent under fire is quite possibly the very worst FPS-style game EVER made, so i actually feel kind of bad that people (albeit a small group) actually has a reason to support such a piece of crap.
but on the bright side, i think march's issue of computer gaming monthly has a nice guide for what you can do with your worthless game disc once you realize it is NOT to be placed in your console (or PC) ever, EVER again!
...DVDs and DVD games would work fine, but PS1 and regular CD games (those with a black/purple background are regular CDs) would come up with a Disk Read Error almost every time
mine started out the exact opposite. dvd movies and games would get disk read errors while ps1 and regular format games would work fine. and the dvds could be made to work with a little patience in constantly ejecting and re-reading until it worked. that progressively got worse and now it reads absolutely nothing whatsoever no matter what crazy things one may try and attempt to get it to read.
and yes, ive cleaned the lens. not sure if i want to play with voltages tho. ill read the site when i get home (see previous post about evil internet blocking at work) thanks.
sony's site has a number you can call. i would post a link here, but i'm at work and sony's site is blocked, so i wouldnt be able to do anything better than www.sony.com.
my contempt for the internet filters at my place of work are to be saved for a completely different discussion...
at least your ps2 still works...
mine was NOT in the batch that got recalled (according to the nice sony representative i spoke with not so long ago) which means that ill have to ship my console to them for a new laser, which i will have to pay for...and will come out to cost more than a brand new unit. so until they bring it down to a reasonable cost, i'll just go without one.
oh and by the way, the thing that irritates me the most about the whole situation is that the laser started to go to shit on me less than a year after purchase...want to know how my original NES (bought in 1985) is doing? well, last night i enjoyed a session of gyromite with R.O.B....yes even the FUCKING ROBOT still works as beautifully as the day i bought it!
oh, and speaking of the south, a friend of mine in georgia actually saw a commercial for this a couple of days ago. i think its damn funny.
go ahead and mod me offtopic if think i deserve it even if it does follow the parent post....
At least you didn't live in the south.. Their family trees down there are twice as complicated as your whiteboard.
how the hell is a straight line complicated? ok, ok...sometimes they make little diamonds....you know, when someone has twins or something...
(it's funny. laugh.)
animatrix server has been slashdotted
check again...im getting my copy as we speak @ 130Kbps.
::throws up gang sign::
DSL. Business Graaaaaaddddeeee!
how old are these things? i havent seen one in years! right now at work we're phasing out the G74 series and those are early 17 inch models. right now, our instructions are to immediately replace any 15 inch monitors we come across and add them to our "junk" box
from the article:
...while it has no plans to charge consumers for the existing service...
phew, alright then. i stopped reading there as that is all i was concerned with. glad they put it close to the beginning, heh. i thought for sure they were about to make ICQ or one of their competetors the NEW number 1 instant messaging program. glad to hear i won't be having to inform my friends of a new screenname on another service.
as soon as AOL starts charging for instant messenger, I (and probably the rest of the world) will move on.
I would think that rendering our current method of digital encryption (factoring very large prime numbers) absolutely useless would be worth a little more than a million bucks! i would be expecting something more along the lines of the NSA's budget for a year or something like that...but, hey, thats just me...
What does 64-bit computing have anything to do with how much RAM one needs
its not how much you need that he's talking about. only with 64 bit computing can one have more than the current limit of RAM (which i believe is 2GB right now). it has to do with the maximum possible number of 32 bit addresses can exist in the RAM. so with a 64 bit processor, you can have enough ram to hold that database all at once time.
....i thought it was integrated and couldnt be sold seperately??? wasnt that part of their argument at the monopoly trials? if they can break it up into components for those guys, why the HELL can't they do it for us here in the states? seems unfair to me...i dont want to pay hundreds of dollars for an operating system that is only nessessary for games, yet here i am...
'will allow new sounds and styles to flourish.'
.0000003% and stop paying to have it played on the radio. oh, this other one does well! their royalties will be .0003% and we'll have the shit played out of it! we're gonna be billionaires!"
so let me get this straight...program judges a song based on how much it sounds like the other "hits" (read: crap) already out there. if it sounds enough like the other stuff then it is judged to be a potential hit. so tell me, how exactly does this promote new sounds and styles? especially if this is accepted by any major labels! "gee, this song doesnt do very well on our hitability software. drop their royalties to
4-18 dollars for the service AND exclusive to AOL users (~25 dollars). so, for 29-43 dollars a month (and i assume it will be at the higher end of that) i get an AOL-quality internet connection (read: shitty) and all the music i want...sort of (how good is their selection going to be?).
on the other hand, i pay 30 bucks a month for DSL (read: excellent) and get all the music i want...no strings attached hold on a second.....thinking.....alright, nope. still not worth it.
sell the secret technology you use for serving up so many freakin web hits!
oh i think the "secret technology" is the appropriate use of text over graphics....something that web designers out there (especially the ones that get slashdotted) seem to need more practice with. mind you, this is a very general comment and i am well aware of exceptions. also, there have been times where slashdot loads fairly slow and im guessing its due to traffic.
This might be offtopic .. but wouldn't be an improvement to the slashcode if the links could be redirected (wrapped) to a system that could queue the requests..........this way remote servers wouldn't "die" like this..
/sarcasm
oh come on, now! where's the fun in that? a good portion of slashdot comments are new and witty ways to say that the site is gone! for example, i read the most hilarious comment earlier that said the modder was "obviously using M$" since the site was down! brilliant!
if slashcode were improved to eliminate this "slashdot effect", then we wouldn't be enriched with comments such as these anymore.
there ARE women and there ARE ethnic drivers in nascar...but unfortunately they are only now just starting to be taken seriously and given a chance.
...do something similiar on yahoo already? how do they figure out their buzz index? because i thought it was based on buzzwords. mind you, its buzz words in hyperlink format, but its still the same concept i think
no, man. i just avoid my tickets by hacking into the police database (by typing "bypass" at the terminal) and then deleting them. that way its more FUN for everyone! remember, im an eXtreme programmer, so i need to get my thrills!
if they can't (or won't) sell it to me, does that constitute theft, piracy, or lost sale numbers in Hilary's eyes?
yes, yes it does you dirty little theif! now come turn yourself and your 57.2 (re-calculated from actual number based on speed) illegal cd burners in to the proper authorities!
so you're looking for accurate depictions of software programmers in movies? i hope this helps!
i usually roll out of bed around 11 or noon (up all night clubbin wit da ladies!) and drive to work in my brand new hummer, completely disregarding traffic signals, speed limits and roads in general. assuming there arent any high speed chases with the bad guys on the way, i make it in to work in time for the boss to yell at me again for "violating protocol" again! im such an eXtreme programmer and i do things my way! thats about when the terrorists show up to the building to take my girlfriend hostage, forcing me to have to fight them all with my bare hands and the occasional uzi taken from fallen enemies (everyone else is taken hostage too, so im the only one that can fight). since im so ripped, i can streetfight anyone and win easily! at around 4 or 5 pm i manage to get to the leader and fight him to the death at the top of the building, throwing him off in the process. once i get my woman back, we get it on and then im off to the clubs for the night! but trouble arises at the club......
oh wait, you want honesty? well heres honesty: unless its a comedy, dont make movies about software developers!
ah, well yeah....calling it "satellite cable" is probably stupid...of course, you probably already understand that i meant satellite broadcasted television signal...usually what is referred to as "cable tv"
as for cost issue...people NOT paying for their service is definitely not good for business, im sure you can agree with that....now you just have to realize that once the signal is decrypted, that information (how to decrypt the signal) will be spread around to anyone wanting to drop that monthly bill, and dont kid yourself: the people who cracked the signal know this and would definitely accept some cash in exchange for this info....so DirecTV now has to be constantly investing in R&D just to keep ahead of the people hacking the signal and sharing their methods.
so, yes...directly, there is nothing lost by "grabbing the signal" already coming to your house....but it still ends up costing money to the provider down the line
DirecTV won't sell me their service because of where I live.....as they *will not allow me* to give them money. So why shouldn't I decrypt the information?
maybe that could be a good argument if it were true...if you are on the internet, then id say your chances of being out of range of any kind of cable provider are slim to none.
plus, them not wanting to sell you service is their right and does NOT entitle you to steal their service, regardless of how little money the lose from your actions (and, yes...stealing satellite cable does still cost them resources)! For example, if i had the money, i would want to buy myself a harrier jet...but guess what, I WONT GET ONE! why not? because the military wont sell it to me! so does that give me the right to break into a military compound and STEAL one? i think not!