Wow! Best thing I've read all day. Must-find-rom...
p.s. if the ATHF game was based on that insult game it would would be really cool, but I'd have thought that making something resembling-but-legally-distinct-from Gish, with Meatwad as the star, would be pretty likely too.
A second hand playstation costs about $20... besides any electrical goods are likely to be presents from parents - I had a PC and stereo but lived a very frugal life, and still have a debt of over $20000.
Thank you, that's very interesting. I'm not a U.S. citzen so I'm not up on its constitution.
After thinking about this I'm not sure it applies. Your argument is that declaring foreign currency illegal is effectively confiscating property from citizens. But this happens every time something is declared illegal, people who have been legally dealing in it now have a warehouse of worthless, illegal goods. Besides, the constitution can be changed. You're right, perhaps not "easily", but it is within the power of the government.
The BBC in the UK doesn't have adverts (actually they put trailers on between the shows and have extravagently long and self-promotional station IDs). It's essentially funded with a subscription, which everyone who owns a TV has to pay.
Anyway, the point I was making is that there are other funding models for TV production: you can sell subscriptions, make money on the DVD sales, sell merchandising, run shows where viewers phone/SMS in (and take a cut from the phone company), show music videos (which are basically adverts that people don't hate), make money in cinemas showing the film version of a TV show (where's my Invader Zim - The Movie?), and no doubt stuff I've not come up with too. Also there's product placement, yuck.
Actually, I have no idea if you could generate a pulse that would destroy all the RFID chips without messing up the rest of the electronics. But I still suspect an implausible Hollywood heist movie using this plot device is being planned as I type.
Multiple mice are no problem whatsoever to windows. I'm not so sure about multiple keyboards, but whenever I'm playing split-screen Serious Sam co-op on PC, I use a joystick or gamepad - it's not perfect but it's no worse than playing on a console anyway...
GTA and GTA 2 were available on PS1, and there was a cut-down port of GTA 2 to gameboy colour. I've played both the GTA 2 ports, they are both terrible compared to the PC version, and the fact you'd never encountered them implies they weren't that successful. I'd have thought GTA (being older and designed for less powerful machines than the playstation) would have been OK on PS1.
There may well have been other versions too.
Side note, you can download GTA 1 and 2 PC for free (and legally) at Rockstar.
Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or the latest version of AOL with ActiveX and scripting enabled."
So, to use this security scanner I have to reboot to my most insecure OS, start up the most insecure browser, go to the options and turn the security level down, and then it'll tell me my computer isn't secure! I'd try it, but something tells me I'd go through all that and it'd want me to shut off my firewall and uninstall the patches before giving a final verdict....
Seriously though, that's idiotic. Only someone with high geek-paranoia would ever bother to turn activeX back on after using that scanner. But of course they do have an interest in getting people infected...
You don't have a right to convert currencies in the real world. The U.S. could quite easily pass a law making private ownership of foreign currency illegal. And AFAIK people in communist countries don't have any fundamental right to dollars. If MMORPGs are like any kind of country, they're totalitarian oligarchies, with the developers as the rulers. Any "rights" you have within that world are at their discretion, and any rights you have outside it are down to your government, and to an extent the U.N..
Your points are good, but don't even mention streaming. I have an great 'net connection (10MB/s+), but have never watched a streaming broadcast of more than a couple of hundred kb/s that didn't have sucky quality. It just plain doesn't work for anything bigger than a postage stamp, and Enterprise fans will be wanting at least 480p with a decent bitrate. A.torrent is the way to go here, and whilst I doubt I'd bother messing with installing some custom horrible-DRM-enabled player I think lots of fans would. They'd then crack it and burn to DVD, but at least that'd keep the marketroids happy.
You have to understand, the average person does not want to burgle you. Your post makes it sound like you don't know that. The result of this fear should not be to attempt to arm others, however.
This is why we have insurance. Stuff gets stolen, maybe it's yours. No don't really lose anything, society as a whole will pay for it. We try and discourage burglary through the actions of professionals like police and lawyers, your responsibility is to do your own job.
Rocket exhaust only has a nozzle speed of a few km/s, so to lose ~10 km/s you need to use considereably more than an asteroid-mass of rocket fuel. (I think the technical term is a "motherfuckload".)
So, unless we put a nuclear powered railgun (or maybe souped-up ion engine) on it and use bits of asteroid as reaction mass we aren't going to be capturing it. That tech will probably still be sci-fi in a couple of decades, sadly.
Better to put it in a public place and use wifi (and maybe steal power from a streetlamp, or use solar) than easy-to-cut wires which someone (albeit on the deathbed) is getting billed for).
You can detect hydrogen in X-ray telescopes. You're correct, there are no transitions and therefore no lines. However, X-rays ionise hydrogen and are absorbed, reducing the flux at low X-ray energies (below ~500 eV). It makes spectra kind of curve off towards zero at low energies. Our view of distant galaxies is affected by this, you always have to take account of a) the ~known amount of hydrogen in our galaxy and b) any other hydrogen between us and the source - this will give a redshifted absorption since it's at cosmological differences. It's pretty tricky with the quality of data you get with current telescopes to work out the redshift of any hydrogen that's out there (i.e. to figure out if it's associated with the source or an absorber on the line of sight like the one they discovered), because it's a smooth curve and not a line. That's probably why there are no numbers given. I'll have to read the paper though...
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You forgot some places to put your swap file:
RAM
Hard drives
Removable storage
Internet
None of those are infinite, but the last two can be very big indeed.
Hmm, I thought I had a point when I started righting this comment - I guess my brain ran out of states.
try this. Then read everything else on wikipedia, to avoid putting your foot in your mouth on /. again... :)
Wow! Best thing I've read all day. Must-find-rom...
p.s. if the ATHF game was based on that insult game it would would be really cool, but I'd have thought that making something resembling-but-legally-distinct-from Gish, with Meatwad as the star, would be pretty likely too.
A second hand playstation costs about $20... besides any electrical goods are likely to be presents from parents - I had a PC and stereo but lived a very frugal life, and still have a debt of over $20000.
non-ugly version
Brilliant!
However, may I suggest a slight change of cast and location: something like this...
So, does this mean that weather satellites aren't allowed to point at Chicago any more?
Thank you, that's very interesting. I'm not a U.S. citzen so I'm not up on its constitution.
After thinking about this I'm not sure it applies. Your argument is that declaring foreign currency illegal is effectively confiscating property from citizens. But this happens every time something is declared illegal, people who have been legally dealing in it now have a warehouse of worthless, illegal goods.
Besides, the constitution can be changed. You're right, perhaps not "easily", but it is within the power of the government.
The BBC in the UK doesn't have adverts (actually they put trailers on between the shows and have extravagently long and self-promotional station IDs). It's essentially funded with a subscription, which everyone who owns a TV has to pay. Anyway, the point I was making is that there are other funding models for TV production: you can sell subscriptions, make money on the DVD sales, sell merchandising, run shows where viewers phone/SMS in (and take a cut from the phone company), show music videos (which are basically adverts that people don't hate), make money in cinemas showing the film version of a TV show (where's my Invader Zim - The Movie?), and no doubt stuff I've not come up with too. Also there's product placement, yuck.
1: EMP casino
2: ?
3: Profit
Actually, I have no idea if you could generate a pulse that would destroy all the RFID chips without messing up the rest of the electronics. But I still suspect an implausible Hollywood heist movie using this plot device is being planned as I type.
Multiple mice are no problem whatsoever to windows. I'm not so sure about multiple keyboards, but whenever I'm playing split-screen Serious Sam co-op on PC, I use a joystick or gamepad - it's not perfect but it's no worse than playing on a console anyway...
GTA and GTA 2 were available on PS1, and there was a cut-down port of GTA 2 to gameboy colour. I've played both the GTA 2 ports, they are both terrible compared to the PC version, and the fact you'd never encountered them implies they weren't that successful. I'd have thought GTA (being older and designed for less powerful machines than the playstation) would have been OK on PS1.
There may well have been other versions too.
Side note, you can download GTA 1 and 2 PC for free (and legally) at Rockstar.
No, no, no. It's for projecting stuff on *other people's* windshields... :)
So, to use this security scanner I have to reboot to my most insecure OS, start up the most insecure browser, go to the options and turn the security level down, and then it'll tell me my computer isn't secure! I'd try it, but something tells me I'd go through all that and it'd want me to shut off my firewall and uninstall the patches before giving a final verdict....
Seriously though, that's idiotic. Only someone with high geek-paranoia would ever bother to turn activeX back on after using that scanner. But of course they do have an interest in getting people infected...
You don't have a right to convert currencies in the real world. The U.S. could quite easily pass a law making private ownership of foreign currency illegal. And AFAIK people in communist countries don't have any fundamental right to dollars. If MMORPGs are like any kind of country, they're totalitarian oligarchies, with the developers as the rulers. Any "rights" you have within that world are at their discretion, and any rights you have outside it are down to your government, and to an extent the U.N..
Your points are good, but don't even mention streaming. I have an great 'net connection (10MB/s+), but have never watched a streaming broadcast of more than a couple of hundred kb/s that didn't have sucky quality. It just plain doesn't work for anything bigger than a postage stamp, and Enterprise fans will be wanting at least 480p with a decent bitrate. A .torrent is the way to go here, and whilst I doubt I'd bother messing with installing some custom horrible-DRM-enabled player I think lots of fans would. They'd then crack it and burn to DVD, but at least that'd keep the marketroids happy.
Sony to release Playstation 361.
You have to understand, the average person does not want to burgle you. Your post makes it sound like you don't know that. The result of this fear should not be to attempt to arm others, however.
This is why we have insurance. Stuff gets stolen, maybe it's yours. No don't really lose anything, society as a whole will pay for it. We try and discourage burglary through the actions of professionals like police and lawyers, your responsibility is to do your own job.
Love the game, but it's not a great typing tutor... you don't need to type the spaces and no need to backspace if you make a mistake.
So to go fast you mash keys, teaching your child to type "kill zombies" as "klillzxombesbies". Do NOT try to code after as TotD session...
Rocket exhaust only has a nozzle speed of a few km/s, so to lose ~10 km/s you need to use considereably more than an asteroid-mass of rocket fuel. (I think the technical term is a "motherfuckload".)
So, unless we put a nuclear powered railgun (or maybe souped-up ion engine) on it and use bits of asteroid as reaction mass we aren't going to be capturing it. That tech will probably still be sci-fi in a couple of decades, sadly.
Better to put it in a public place and use wifi (and maybe steal power from a streetlamp, or use solar) than easy-to-cut wires which someone (albeit on the deathbed) is getting billed for).
You can detect hydrogen in X-ray telescopes. You're correct, there are no transitions and therefore no lines. However, X-rays ionise hydrogen and are absorbed, reducing the flux at low X-ray energies (below ~500 eV). It makes spectra kind of curve off towards zero at low energies.
Our view of distant galaxies is affected by this, you always have to take account of a) the ~known amount of hydrogen in our galaxy and b) any other hydrogen between us and the source - this will give a redshifted absorption since it's at cosmological differences. It's pretty tricky with the quality of data you get with current telescopes to work out the redshift of any hydrogen that's out there (i.e. to figure out if it's associated with the source or an absorber on the line of sight like the one they discovered), because it's a smooth curve and not a line. That's probably why there are no numbers given. I'll have to read the paper though...
And here you are! :)
Mixed doubles tennis players.
and 2: the authors have a known association with spyware.
Format and reinstall, immediately. Your data is in the arms of your saviour now.
Or you could just do what I do and live in an (almost) one-room house. OK, no music in the bathroom, but I could always put a cd player in there.