Douglas Adams himself would have a difficult time thinking up something so blunderingly, amazingly stupid and steeped in political dumb-fuckery. I find myself compelled, forced even, to complete a piece of fan fiction regarding a massive garbage freighter being sent repeatedly back and forth between two planets like a giant, stinky and half-rotten tennis ball because two governments couldn't get it straight which one of them tossed out the first banana peel. I think it has merit.
Look, see, It's sorta like this. Say I was to buy you a beer. And that beer would be free. To you. And then you could drink it. And get drunk, I suppose. And then, if I was drinking my beer that I had to pay for then I'd be drunk as well eventually, and then, well...
I just forgot what I was going on about, but I really could use a beer right now.
... well not really, since this game is soooo old, but still its a huge HUGE gameworld. Really. It's big. Can't wait to play it. It makes Oblivion look like Sesame Street.
Wrong! I'm both a competitive Street Fighter player and musician and I've taken both quite far at one time or another and I can tell you that the best are rounded out in all respects. There are things that you do at that level without thinking about it because if you're thinking of them, then you aren't at the level you imagine yourself at. For Street Fighter it's doing special moves. You don't think, shoryuken motion just comes out. In music it's breathing. You just breath, correctly, and play. Of course there's more: fingering, reading music; learning spacing, reading your opponent. But, once you've mastered the basics a TOP player will go into the mechanics, in fact, they should have already done so by now and are now on their way to mastering them. Memorizing frame data and counting frames for Street Fighter, memorizing theory for musicians and learning how to implement it. The ones who dissect and understand are far ahead of those who don't. That's the difference, you see, understanding. If someone spends all that time dissecting and never comes to understand any of it, then yes, I agree with you. They are never going to develop much real skill.
This is nothing new, totally off-topic and wrong. Doctors are pretty much like what the grandparent stated, for the most part. Big-headed and pissed off that the went to school for so long and there's still someone who can tell them what to do. Trying to get a doctor to do anything out of their normal routine is like pulling elephant teeth. Especially when it comes to IT. They think of it as something that is subsidiary to their role as caretakers, when it's actually central to it, as it is in pretty much any industry and they are completely in denial of that fact.
No really, Doctors hate technology for the most part from what I've seen, as they see it as intrusive and contradictory to their long history of practice. The number one concern I hear voiced is that having to deal with electronic records, especially with the patient present takes the doctor's attention away from the patient and that's a big no for most physicians. The other one I hear alot is that from the patient's viewpoint it looks a whole lot less intimidating and polite to have a doctor staring at a paper chart than a hand-held device. Something about a person staring into a screen as they attempt to hold a conversation with you is still a bit unnerving and something that we haven't fully gotten used to for the most part, I guess.
I looked at TFA and cried a bit. No seriously, I cried. It's so beautiful, but so sinister. Looking at that plane that comes from such a romantic time of aircraft, I was overtaken by an awed and creepy feeling. It's right out of history, yet right out of fiction. I just can't imagine something like that on the battlefield. I'm not a war monger, but I do have much admiration for the planes of that era and the valiant men who flew them. I am glad they dd not have to face this lovely monster in combat.
I've been wanting to build my own custom VGA switch box for a work project that I can't spend my own money on and now I can do it thanks to this site that tells me how to re-wire the vga. Now I just gotta learn how to wire. Doh! Oh well. I'ma still try it.
... to be old and grizzled, sitting down at a dimly lit table hugging a filthy glass of Tekravian whiskey and retelling my horrific experiences as a crew member aboard the the first Durnigan-class commercial cruiser, and how we ended up stranded in the Telmos sector. AFTER it had been declared a red zone due to the 100 year long Dar'mra mating cycle. Let me tell you... there's a whole lot of them in that sector and boy do they mean business!
Yeah, that story always gets me at least a drink and a girl for the night. Good times.
... time. It's cooler, faster, lighter, cheaper and better for the environment and it looks a hell of a lot bad ass when you open up a system that's got it's guts exposed and just start hot-swappin' like a mofo. Sad thing is that it's driven by $$$$ and the need for companies to shave even a few pennies off their TCO when I've been doing it to my systems for years now for the above-state reasons.
Exactly. once you've seen it all. it's no. That. Great. Doesn't matter what MMO it is either. They're all the same. Games don't hurt anyone and eventually everyone is bound to quit sometime. Of course, that doesn't mean there won't be things lost or passed up due to the lost time, but it's not the sort of addiction that needs treatment. It will run it's course in due time and nothing will really have changed.
I LOVE me some vintage video cards. It's like a mini history of gaming and PC enthusiasm. I used to have a pretty good collection of Voodoos and geforces, and even some very old Vesa Local Bus Hercules cards along with other ancient devices and they were all functional, but it just got to be too much of a hassle when I moved into my own apartment. I wish I had some of them old cards. Others I gave away to those needy for parts (I.E. kid gamers that couldn't afford current gaming setups), and while I wish I still had them, I'm glad I was able to benefit someone else with them instead of simply getting back a mere fraction of their original value from the ol' electronics store.
... will plugging my car into this "mesh" gain me? I don't see a reason for this. It's excessive and prone to more problems than we already have (I guess. I don't even understand exactly what problem she's trying to solve so as to properly determine that). I don't see the automobile in the same light that she does. Just let my car be a car and be powered by my power, Mrs. Xzibit.
Yes. Especially considering the posibility your scenario raises of another nation taking control of a botnet and launching an attack against a government just to elicit a "kinetic" response. Start a war... in under 10 clicks!
I'm such a poser that the only thing I used it for was low-level format of hard drives. But oh, how I'll miss it. I still remember being a phone tech and using the debug script for callers that I didn't like. I'd tell them "Okay, I'm going to tell you some commands and I'm not going to be able to stop so make sure you don't miss anything of else I'm not sure if I'll be able to recover your system ever again." And then I'd proceed to turbo-read the script without stopping. Ah, such fun.
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Douglas Adams himself would have a difficult time thinking up something so blunderingly, amazingly stupid and steeped in political dumb-fuckery. I find myself compelled, forced even, to complete a piece of fan fiction regarding a massive garbage freighter being sent repeatedly back and forth between two planets like a giant, stinky and half-rotten tennis ball because two governments couldn't get it straight which one of them tossed out the first banana peel. I think it has merit.
Look, see, It's sorta like this. Say I was to buy you a beer. And that beer would be free. To you. And then you could drink it. And get drunk, I suppose. And then, if I was drinking my beer that I had to pay for then I'd be drunk as well eventually, and then, well...
I just forgot what I was going on about, but I really could use a beer right now.
Raves are illegal in the UK? Amazing.
... well not really, since this game is soooo old, but still its a huge HUGE gameworld. Really. It's big. Can't wait to play it. It makes Oblivion look like Sesame Street.
From what I understand - and that isn't much - the "trojans" are actually named as known Windows executables, so yeah... in a sense they are trojans.
Wrong! I'm both a competitive Street Fighter player and musician and I've taken both quite far at one time or another and I can tell you that the best are rounded out in all respects. There are things that you do at that level without thinking about it because if you're thinking of them, then you aren't at the level you imagine yourself at. For Street Fighter it's doing special moves. You don't think, shoryuken motion just comes out. In music it's breathing. You just breath, correctly, and play. Of course there's more: fingering, reading music; learning spacing, reading your opponent. But, once you've mastered the basics a TOP player will go into the mechanics, in fact, they should have already done so by now and are now on their way to mastering them. Memorizing frame data and counting frames for Street Fighter, memorizing theory for musicians and learning how to implement it. The ones who dissect and understand are far ahead of those who don't. That's the difference, you see, understanding. If someone spends all that time dissecting and never comes to understand any of it, then yes, I agree with you. They are never going to develop much real skill.
This is nothing new, totally off-topic and wrong. Doctors are pretty much like what the grandparent stated, for the most part. Big-headed and pissed off that the went to school for so long and there's still someone who can tell them what to do. Trying to get a doctor to do anything out of their normal routine is like pulling elephant teeth. Especially when it comes to IT. They think of it as something that is subsidiary to their role as caretakers, when it's actually central to it, as it is in pretty much any industry and they are completely in denial of that fact.
No really, Doctors hate technology for the most part from what I've seen, as they see it as intrusive and contradictory to their long history of practice. The number one concern I hear voiced is that having to deal with electronic records, especially with the patient present takes the doctor's attention away from the patient and that's a big no for most physicians. The other one I hear alot is that from the patient's viewpoint it looks a whole lot less intimidating and polite to have a doctor staring at a paper chart than a hand-held device. Something about a person staring into a screen as they attempt to hold a conversation with you is still a bit unnerving and something that we haven't fully gotten used to for the most part, I guess.
I looked at TFA and cried a bit. No seriously, I cried. It's so beautiful, but so sinister. Looking at that plane that comes from such a romantic time of aircraft, I was overtaken by an awed and creepy feeling. It's right out of history, yet right out of fiction. I just can't imagine something like that on the battlefield. I'm not a war monger, but I do have much admiration for the planes of that era and the valiant men who flew them. I am glad they dd not have to face this lovely monster in combat.
... but them damn defaults are also responsible for a good number of security vulnerabilities. Default passwords and what not.
I've been wanting to build my own custom VGA switch box for a work project that I can't spend my own money on and now I can do it thanks to this site that tells me how to re-wire the vga. Now I just gotta learn how to wire. Doh! Oh well. I'ma still try it.
... to be old and grizzled, sitting down at a dimly lit table hugging a filthy glass of Tekravian whiskey and retelling my horrific experiences as a crew member aboard the the first Durnigan-class commercial cruiser, and how we ended up stranded in the Telmos sector. AFTER it had been declared a red zone due to the 100 year long Dar'mra mating cycle. Let me tell you... there's a whole lot of them in that sector and boy do they mean business!
Yeah, that story always gets me at least a drink and a girl for the night. Good times.
... the SimCity (SNES) theme song?
... time. It's cooler, faster, lighter, cheaper and better for the environment and it looks a hell of a lot bad ass when you open up a system that's got it's guts exposed and just start hot-swappin' like a mofo. Sad thing is that it's driven by $$$$ and the need for companies to shave even a few pennies off their TCO when I've been doing it to my systems for years now for the above-state reasons.
Wow. Thanks! http://www79.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=((randomint%5B6%5D+%2B+randomint%5B6%5D)+mod+8)+%2B+1
Exactly. once you've seen it all. it's no. That. Great. Doesn't matter what MMO it is either. They're all the same. Games don't hurt anyone and eventually everyone is bound to quit sometime. Of course, that doesn't mean there won't be things lost or passed up due to the lost time, but it's not the sort of addiction that needs treatment. It will run it's course in due time and nothing will really have changed.
I LOVE me some vintage video cards. It's like a mini history of gaming and PC enthusiasm. I used to have a pretty good collection of Voodoos and geforces, and even some very old Vesa Local Bus Hercules cards along with other ancient devices and they were all functional, but it just got to be too much of a hassle when I moved into my own apartment. I wish I had some of them old cards. Others I gave away to those needy for parts (I.E. kid gamers that couldn't afford current gaming setups), and while I wish I still had them, I'm glad I was able to benefit someone else with them instead of simply getting back a mere fraction of their original value from the ol' electronics store.
Just download a SNES emulator and Mutant League Football. It is probably better.
I ROFL'ed at BigMACAddress.
This. If I had a dime for e3very melody/motif that I LOST to a moment's distraction... Still, it doesn't necessarily have to be voicemail.
... will plugging my car into this "mesh" gain me? I don't see a reason for this. It's excessive and prone to more problems than we already have (I guess. I don't even understand exactly what problem she's trying to solve so as to properly determine that). I don't see the automobile in the same light that she does. Just let my car be a car and be powered by my power, Mrs. Xzibit.
LOL and that was the perfect response to someone named "Fluffy" trying to school the internet on war.
Yes. Especially considering the posibility your scenario raises of another nation taking control of a botnet and launching an attack against a government just to elicit a "kinetic" response. Start a war... in under 10 clicks!
I'm such a poser that the only thing I used it for was low-level format of hard drives. But oh, how I'll miss it. I still remember being a phone tech and using the debug script for callers that I didn't like. I'd tell them "Okay, I'm going to tell you some commands and I'm not going to be able to stop so make sure you don't miss anything of else I'm not sure if I'll be able to recover your system ever again." And then I'd proceed to turbo-read the script without stopping. Ah, such fun.
Dude above is right. Looks up Alternate Data Streams, for a real good example.