"Let us know if they explain why his waist never seems to expand to the point where his pants rip completely off. "
It's like steroids... muscles get pumped, package gets shrunk.
Seriously, I would guess it's because the predominant effect of his changeover is due to skeletal muscle mass increasing a ton; the waist has very little skeletal muscle. Most of the volume is occupied by GI tract.
"Though the first time you leap into the air and toss a firetruck downward at an assaulting military unit you'll grin from ear to ear, after the 50th time that same move has lost its luster... but after the 25th time you destroy a tank it's just not novel anymore.
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By the second time in the same paragraph I hear the same thing, it kind of loses it's luster, it's just not novel anymore.
Although, being a fan of hack 'n' slash dungeon crawlers, I gotta say that I'll be picking up this title as soon as I can pry the cash from my wife's han... I mean, as soon as I leave work.
Not claimed to be hackproof in TFA: "'I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine'[said Chris Satchell]"
So, they say that a hack may work on one machine, but not another? Article implies that this additional security is added through hardware design. What are they doing, putting a combination lock on the circuitry?
No matter what the new security is, I'm sure it'll me that much more rewarding for the person who first publishes the workaround.
MS has to be careful that the console isn't too easily modifiable, or else they'll get slapped with a lawsuit for enabling people to pirate copyrighted works...
"Oh, I see, Amazon.com is just expecting the patent reform to go through, which makes prior art not relevant, but which just works on a first come, first served basis.
"
Please, stop this FUD. The proposed patent reform, which has been addressed several times already on slashdot, does not eliminate the need to prove originality. Prior art will still invalidate a patent.
I would agree to a certain extent, except that they can differentiate from Bush in other ways than stands on Neocon issues. Whether it's unsolvable issues that don't matter to the Neocons, or someone who's personality is distinctly different.
I don't think it will take a lot to get their voter base back into the fold, a lot of people will come back if there is just enough difference to make the new candidate seem to be "Not Bush".
I know there's some trollishness (and probably some sarcasm) to your post, but I gotta say, the movement is VERY, VERY happy with all the hate directed at Bush.
Bush is a lighning rod on the roof of the house of Neocon.
Once Bush is gone, they can put someone else in place to run for POTUS, and we'll not have solved a darn thing.
Your point of view is spot-on. This is why PB wants to get more potential readers to try the hard copy -- so they'll realize the advantages that the hard copy offers.
"As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute." (emphais mine)
I think you have it right. The games are full of colons, and as we all know, colons are full of sh... The game industry needs an enema.
How about C&C: Red Alert? It goes back pretty far.
"Does anyone have any ideas on what they would be doing with one of the pioneers of the internet and a truckload of fibre?
"
Pure speculation, but:
(1) proprietary protocol for internal traffic; or
(2) implementation of TCP/IP for telecom venture.
Voice.google.com, anyone? or tv.google.com?
I don't know which scares/excites me more.
That said, Google could realize savings (and perhaps have better security) if they purchase their own dark cable, rather than lease it. Big financial institutions have been doing this recently. Maybe Cerf will just help them implement this.
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FTA: "[Cerf] also will continue as a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has been focusing on a very Google-like project _ trying to figure out a way to connect the Internet to outer space."
How is this project Google-like, other than seeming to be pretty cool?
Cerf has been working on a network utility issue with NASA. I wasn't aware that Google is in the network utility game at all.
From the summary: "Plugged into my car speakers, it was able to belt out the new Fountains of Wayne rocker, "Maureen," loudly enough to be heard perfectly, even though I was going 70 mph in a convertible with the top down.'"
Ooooh! He's trendy (new MTV music), he's rich and stylish (convertible), and he's a wanker (blasting noise pollution).
Please, please, can I be like him? I'll definitely buy a Nano now!
This is a prime example of why trendiness drives iPod sales.
Not to upset the fans or anything, but why is this necessary in an article about a new product?
Wow, mods!
Something that someone thought was funny, has now been modded down PAST its original score... then modded back up to the orginal score. Except for the first "funny" mod point used, all the points have been "underrated" or "overrated."
I don't care if my post gets modded down into oblivion -- I'm just concerned that the overrated/underrated mod points are being used too much.
Far better to moderate something for its values, such as whether the comment is a troll, is offtopic, is informative, is interesting, etc.
I'm sure there are plenty of comments on articles on the front page that have not been modded at all, but deserve recognition for one reason or another.
Print porn has been going down the tubes over the past decade as your average younger pornhound has easy access to free stills and video on the internet.
Laptops and handhelds (computers, not models or anything else!) are taking away one of the great advantages of print porn -- transportability.
Hef's company knows it needs to get some of the younger generations (i.e., 18-40) back into the (center)fold.
Playboy and Penthouse have always tried to get famous, beautiful, female personalities for their pictorials, from models to actresses to musicians to athletes to Miss America. Why shouldn't they have pictorials featuring modern famous, beautiful, female personalities, even if they are from video games?
Maybe Playboy can get some new people to appreciate all that print porn has to offer.
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And if it's only games articles you don't want on your homepage, then select 'none' for games.
"Let us know if they explain why his waist never seems to expand to the point where his pants rip completely off. "
It's like steroids... muscles get pumped, package gets shrunk.
Seriously, I would guess it's because the predominant effect of his changeover is due to skeletal muscle mass increasing a ton; the waist has very little skeletal muscle. Most of the volume is occupied by GI tract.
Either that, or an elastic wasteband.
"Though the first time you leap into the air and toss a firetruck downward at an assaulting military unit you'll grin from ear to ear, after the 50th time that same move has lost its luster... but after the 25th time you destroy a tank it's just not novel anymore. "
By the second time in the same paragraph I hear the same thing, it kind of loses it's luster, it's just not novel anymore.
Although, being a fan of hack 'n' slash dungeon crawlers, I gotta say that I'll be picking up this title as soon as I can pry the cash from my wife's han... I mean, as soon as I leave work.
ESR got an unsolicited form letter from a recruiting vendor doing the email equivalent of cold-calling -- otherwise known as "Spamming".
/. attention, but please. Spare us.
Of course, his response was humorous, and possibly therefore worthy of
I would rather have seen an "unsubscribe" reply... with a followup in case he gets another email from the vendor.
Not claimed to be hackproof in TFA: "'I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine'[said Chris Satchell]"
So, they say that a hack may work on one machine, but not another? Article implies that this additional security is added through hardware design. What are they doing, putting a combination lock on the circuitry?
No matter what the new security is, I'm sure it'll me that much more rewarding for the person who first publishes the workaround.
MS has to be careful that the console isn't too easily modifiable, or else they'll get slapped with a lawsuit for enabling people to pirate copyrighted works...
"Oh, I see, Amazon.com is just expecting the patent reform to go through, which makes prior art not relevant, but which just works on a first come, first served basis. "
Please, stop this FUD. The proposed patent reform, which has been addressed several times already on slashdot, does not eliminate the need to prove originality. Prior art will still invalidate a patent.
Middle-aged didn't come into play in my thought process... but I've seen firsthand how the trendiness aspect has worked.
I agree that features and design have made a big difference with the iPod, but I still believe that fashion/trendiness has made a HUGE difference.
I would agree to a certain extent, except that they can differentiate from Bush in other ways than stands on Neocon issues. Whether it's unsolvable issues that don't matter to the Neocons, or someone who's personality is distinctly different.
I don't think it will take a lot to get their voter base back into the fold, a lot of people will come back if there is just enough difference to make the new candidate seem to be "Not Bush".
Doh, missed a word there... the Neocon movement.
Or, the unnameables behind the Neeocon movement -- mostly corporations, not Cthulhu.
I know there's some trollishness (and probably some sarcasm) to your post, but I gotta say, the movement is VERY, VERY happy with all the hate directed at Bush.
/Tinfoil hat securely on.
Bush is a lighning rod on the roof of the house of Neocon.
Once Bush is gone, they can put someone else in place to run for POTUS, and we'll not have solved a darn thing.
"'and low-frequency navigation systems'
I'm not positive, but I believe they're referring to ADF beacons"
What about cetacean navigational systems? Why don't they care about the whales?
"Next Generation has a conversation with the lead designer of the much lauded game Darwinia. From the article: "It sports..." (emphasis mine)
Great, sports, so how long until EA negotiates an exclusive license?
"Rumor has it that trusted sources from The Wall Street Journal say"
Maybe the submitter has a good grasp of subtle irony?
Point taken.
Although, his mention of any band is totally extraneous to the review... so why is it there?
And I do find that him pointing out that the single is "new" does still fit into my theory...
Your point of view is spot-on. This is why PB wants to get more potential readers to try the hard copy -- so they'll realize the advantages that the hard copy offers.
"As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute." (emphais mine)
I think you have it right. The games are full of colons, and as we all know, colons are full of sh... The game industry needs an enema.
How about C&C: Red Alert? It goes back pretty far.
"Does anyone have any ideas on what they would be doing with one of the pioneers of the internet and a truckload of fibre? "
Pure speculation, but:
(1) proprietary protocol for internal traffic; or
(2) implementation of TCP/IP for telecom venture.
Voice.google.com, anyone? or tv.google.com?
I don't know which scares/excites me more.
That said, Google could realize savings (and perhaps have better security) if they purchase their own dark cable, rather than lease it. Big financial institutions have been doing this recently. Maybe Cerf will just help them implement this.
Eesh, I forgot about that.
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Here's a link to an article about Google hiring people with experience in buying dark fiber capacity: http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-
The question to me is, how does this tie in with Cerf's hiring?
Pure speculation, but is Google trying to build its own backbone with proprietary protocols?
Or will Cerf be working on implementing current protocols, either for Google's internal needs, or for an entrance by Google into telecom?
Are phone.Google, video.Google, etc too far away?
Does Google want to get into content delivery as well as search?
"Chief Internet Evangelist? Really?"
Especially the "Chief" part... this implies a whole team of internet evangelists.
I guess Pat Robertson is diversifying his revenue sources...
FTA: "[Cerf] also will continue as a visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has been focusing on a very Google-like project _ trying to figure out a way to connect the Internet to outer space."
How is this project Google-like, other than seeming to be pretty cool?
Cerf has been working on a network utility issue with NASA. I wasn't aware that Google is in the network utility game at all.
"I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."
I can only think of one thing that people typically use the phrase "shovel out" with... and it begins with sh-.
I sure hope, for Google's sake, that he shovels out something else.
From the summary: "Plugged into my car speakers, it was able to belt out the new Fountains of Wayne rocker, "Maureen," loudly enough to be heard perfectly, even though I was going 70 mph in a convertible with the top down.'"
Ooooh! He's trendy (new MTV music), he's rich and stylish (convertible), and he's a wanker (blasting noise pollution).
Please, please, can I be like him? I'll definitely buy a Nano now!
This is a prime example of why trendiness drives iPod sales.
Not to upset the fans or anything, but why is this necessary in an article about a new product?
Wow, mods!
Something that someone thought was funny, has now been modded down PAST its original score... then modded back up to the orginal score. Except for the first "funny" mod point used, all the points have been "underrated" or "overrated."
I don't care if my post gets modded down into oblivion -- I'm just concerned that the overrated/underrated mod points are being used too much.
Far better to moderate something for its values, such as whether the comment is a troll, is offtopic, is informative, is interesting, etc.
I'm sure there are plenty of comments on articles on the front page that have not been modded at all, but deserve recognition for one reason or another.
Huh? Please explain your comment.
Yes, they are video game characters. I even mentioned that in the question. So?
What is wrong with that?
Print porn has been going down the tubes over the past decade as your average younger pornhound has easy access to free stills and video on the internet.
Laptops and handhelds (computers, not models or anything else!) are taking away one of the great advantages of print porn -- transportability.
Hef's company knows it needs to get some of the younger generations (i.e., 18-40) back into the (center)fold.
Playboy and Penthouse have always tried to get famous, beautiful, female personalities for their pictorials, from models to actresses to musicians to athletes to Miss America. Why shouldn't they have pictorials featuring modern famous, beautiful, female personalities, even if they are from video games?
Maybe Playboy can get some new people to appreciate all that print porn has to offer.
"in other words, the comet is more like a pile of powder than a solid rock."
NASA wants its Tang back.