Anyone else think all this useless diplomatic handwrestling about the "control" of the internet is quite utterly useless (if someone starts to censor things or whatever, I'm the first in line to start my own linux boxen to take care of all my home network DNS needs)?
Wish the opensource community developed a distributed system so we could all give the finger to the man trying to bring our internets down.:P
There shouldn't be any metals in a pillow, and unless there's a huge spore colony in it it shouldn't burst in flames, but maybe I missed something? Anyone with an extra microwave care to try it? I am not a microwave engineer, so keep that in mind if someone's microwave oven explodes or whatever.:P
I don't know, jettisoned gives me the image of 300 engineers flying around in vacuum. I don't think they meant that when they blamed manned exploration.
Maybe China, Iran etc. want the Internet to "Fall Apart", and bring their citizens back under pre-internet control? Nowadays it's difficult to prevent people from learning about other countries and their political systems, perhaps especially China's propaganda machinery would have an easier time of controlling the populace without the Internet. The E.U. probably isn't interested in that, but stupid politicians isn't a unique phenomena limited to the U.S., I wouldn't be surprised if European politicians actually believe the Internet will fall apart if they don't get the magical ICANN boxen moved over to Europe ASAP.:P
I too am sick of bug parties. Coming home after a long day of work and discovering insectoids partying in my apartment is just too much. But fear not, torching the couch with some gasoline and matches usually drives them away. Usually.
You had me until "- Stop supporting the illegitimate state of Israel". Sigh. I guess you also want the U.S. to stop the illegitimate occupation of North America, and the Russians to stop the illegitimate occupation of parts of Finland. And why not demand the illegitimate occupation of the British Isles to stop, those darn Normans have been there long enough. When enough time goes by, some things become impossible to fix. Maybe the ones who created the state of Israel had no right to it, but surely you cannot suggest that those born in Israel since then have no right to their homeland? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Why do people always bring up the hovercar argument? Whenever I hear the word hovercar, I think noisy, dangerous and expensive. Maybe the reason we don't have hover cars isn't because we don't have the tech, but because it was a stupid idea in the first place?
Many people ski and cycle to improve their condition. If we solve the problem of aging we most likely wouldn't need to do these things. Then again, those who enjoy skiing and cycling would continue to do so, risk or not.
Check out the risk-taking in nations that have low life-expectancy. If you're 40, and not going to live past 50, you don't waste the time you have stopping at red lights.
Less maniacs on the road killing and maiming people because they don't waste time stopping at red lights can only be seen as a good thing. One could also consider that maybe the reason their life expectancy is so low is because they take many risks?
After reading your post I'm actually starting to think that there still is hope for the Civ series. Thanks for the info, I think I'll point my browser to Gamespot now.:)
Alpha Centauri had excellent diplomacy, and the A.I. players could have many intelligent things to say, e.g. Gaians got pissed at me for polluting, or the Morganites wanted to share their maps and coordinate their attacks. It also had a planetary council were decisions pertaining to the whole planet were made, like doing something to decrease global warming or decreasing human rights. Compared to that, the Civ3 trade-o-matic-screen was quite pathetic.
Which kind of diplomacy will Civilization IV be having?
But, the prices are only so obscene because the consumer is willing to pay. If we stop paying, they'll either fold up because they truly cannot operate on those margins (unlikely) or they'll lower prices
I think consumers already have grown tired of paying obscene amounts and have started to spend less money on music and movies. Too bad the RIAA and MPAA are just pushing for more DRM and crying "waah, waah, pirates", when in reality their incomes are dropping because people don't want their garbage anymore. The free market will prevail however, and it's only a matter of time before they run out of money and die off.
But I think what they are really up to is to try and prevent users to enjoy their music. Next thing to come, you won't be able to play it either
Considering the quality of music nowadays, I'd say that's actually an improvement. I guess RIAA really is on the side of the little guy, trying to protect us from all the "music" their artists produce!
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Tweaked it for you.
It may not be feasible in our universe to ever get more power out of a fusion reaction than you put in.
Not sure what the parent poster meant, but what he wrote leaves little room for interpretation.
Maybe he needs it for a swap file? I heard Microsoft upped the memory requirements in the next version of windows.
Google honours Robots.txt. Therefore they could argue that the web page copyright holders are allowing Google to index their pages.
Anyone else think all this useless diplomatic handwrestling about the "control" of the internet is quite utterly useless (if someone starts to censor things or whatever, I'm the first in line to start my own linux boxen to take care of all my home network DNS needs)?
:P
Wish the opensource community developed a distributed system so we could all give the finger to the man trying to bring our internets down.
Great, and what will you send to catch the dog?
[ ] Only if Soviet Russia makes a beowulf cluster of it, because my spoon is too big.
There shouldn't be any metals in a pillow, and unless there's a huge spore colony in it it shouldn't burst in flames, but maybe I missed something? Anyone with an extra microwave care to try it? I am not a microwave engineer, so keep that in mind if someone's microwave oven explodes or whatever. :P
I don't know, jettisoned gives me the image of 300 engineers flying around in vacuum. I don't think they meant that when they blamed manned exploration.
I'm a consumer whore!
Maybe China, Iran etc. want the Internet to "Fall Apart", and bring their citizens back under pre-internet control? Nowadays it's difficult to prevent people from learning about other countries and their political systems, perhaps especially China's propaganda machinery would have an easier time of controlling the populace without the Internet. The E.U. probably isn't interested in that, but stupid politicians isn't a unique phenomena limited to the U.S., I wouldn't be surprised if European politicians actually believe the Internet will fall apart if they don't get the magical ICANN boxen moved over to Europe ASAP. :P
I too am sick of bug parties. Coming home after a long day of work and discovering insectoids partying in my apartment is just too much. But fear not, torching the couch with some gasoline and matches usually drives them away. Usually.
Nowadays the definition of slashdotted doesn't require the visitors to be from slashdot. And he was joking, chill. :)
You had me until "- Stop supporting the illegitimate state of Israel". Sigh. I guess you also want the U.S. to stop the illegitimate occupation of North America, and the Russians to stop the illegitimate occupation of parts of Finland. And why not demand the illegitimate occupation of the British Isles to stop, those darn Normans have been there long enough. When enough time goes by, some things become impossible to fix. Maybe the ones who created the state of Israel had no right to it, but surely you cannot suggest that those born in Israel since then have no right to their homeland? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Cool! I wonder if you'd get werewolf-like hair growth on your mouse hand, or if it just starts glowing in the night?
On a more serious note, I wonder if an inductive mouse pad could interfere with monitors if placed too close?
The speakers aren't directly connected to the internet, they would get the audio data from your computer which would make sure everything is in sync.
Why do people always bring up the hovercar argument? Whenever I hear the word hovercar, I think noisy, dangerous and expensive. Maybe the reason we don't have hover cars isn't because we don't have the tech, but because it was a stupid idea in the first place?
Many people ski and cycle to improve their condition. If we solve the problem of aging we most likely wouldn't need to do these things. Then again, those who enjoy skiing and cycling would continue to do so, risk or not.
Check out the risk-taking in nations that have low life-expectancy. If you're 40, and not going to live past 50, you don't waste the time you have stopping at red lights.
Less maniacs on the road killing and maiming people because they don't waste time stopping at red lights can only be seen as a good thing. One could also consider that maybe the reason their life expectancy is so low is because they take many risks?
I'd rather be in a self repairing battleship crewed by autonomous maintenance bots and head out towards the unknown reaches of space.
If it's a windows-only game then why would they even want to market it to all platforms?
If you mean changing twinklers to phasers, then you are incorrect. It's supposed to be like that because it's a joke, not an incorrect translation. :)
After reading your post I'm actually starting to think that there still is hope for the Civ series. Thanks for the info, I think I'll point my browser to Gamespot now. :)
Alpha Centauri had excellent diplomacy, and the A.I. players could have many intelligent things to say, e.g. Gaians got pissed at me for polluting, or the Morganites wanted to share their maps and coordinate their attacks. It also had a planetary council were decisions pertaining to the whole planet were made, like doing something to decrease global warming or decreasing human rights. Compared to that, the Civ3 trade-o-matic-screen was quite pathetic.
Which kind of diplomacy will Civilization IV be having?
But, the prices are only so obscene because the consumer is willing to pay. If we stop paying, they'll either fold up because they truly cannot operate on those margins (unlikely) or they'll lower prices
I think consumers already have grown tired of paying obscene amounts and have started to spend less money on music and movies. Too bad the RIAA and MPAA are just pushing for more DRM and crying "waah, waah, pirates", when in reality their incomes are dropping because people don't want their garbage anymore. The free market will prevail however, and it's only a matter of time before they run out of money and die off.
But I think what they are really up to is to try and prevent users to enjoy their music. Next thing to come, you won't be able to play it either
Considering the quality of music nowadays, I'd say that's actually an improvement. I guess RIAA really is on the side of the little guy, trying to protect us from all the "music" their artists produce!