I myself use yahoomail (was going gmail but my yahoo account is 11 years old so everyone knows it -- plus I have no need for the gmail amounts of storage) and I have no problems with webmail (not even hotmail, except when MS was a bag of douche and routed gmail invites to the spam folder) -- I was jokingly referring to getting them all SMTP/POP3/etc server/accounts of their own.
Punch them in the face for using hotmail and get them a REAL email account. No, but seriously... I don't know if there's any (reasonable) way you're going to easily get around hotmail's "security". You could try contacting hotmail support about the problem... lord knows how much good that will do you:D. You could find a trusted host that it accepts links from, set up a mail account there, and have the mail automatically forwarded (though if you don't want it to be a mass [i.e. all the same] email you would have to create a different account for each person). That's all I can think of (other people mentioned spoofing the "from"... that probably won't get you far, most spam filters reject anything that doesn't have a matching reverse DNS lookup... but I've never tried it with hotmail, so I guess you could give it a go).
It is proof of global warming. Scientists from the future (where it's REALLY hot) created a time machine that they threw all the hot air into -- then they sent it back to the late 1500's because they were like "Fuck, no one cares about the 1500's". It's true, I saw it on the internet.
If I recall -- the batteries were not supported in the warranty until people started bitching about them. I had to friends with first-gen iPods that went to crap and Apple said "tough shit -- that's what batteries do". Strangely, I use my Creative Nomad (which I bought around the same time they did) much more frequently than they did, and hence charged it more too, and my battery life has hardly deteriorated at all (hey, don't blame Apple, they used Sony batteries -- Sony blows!).
How many desktop harddrives have you owned? If you buy the low-cost crap drives, of COURSE they're loud. Horrible analogy time: that's like buying a beat-up Geo Metro and then saying "Well, motorcycles make less noise than my Metro so therefore all cars are louder than motorcycles". If you go with medium to high-end drives, they are VERY quiet -- they have more room for vibration buffers and other anti-noise technowhozzits. If you think laptop drives are quiet, let me give you a listen to my '03 Toshiba -- it's louder than both of my desktop harddrives combined even when they're ticking away at full throttle.
How is it a lot easier to remove 2.5" or 3.5" drives? I have an Antec SuperLanBoy case with a 4-drive mount system -- the drive is screwed into a U-shaped assembly using silicone buffers to reduce vibration (and thereby noise) and the U-shaped assembly simply slides into place in a designated rack. All I have to do is unplug the power and IDE cables, push 2 tabs inwards, and pull out my drive (the drive assembly is turned sideways so you pull your drive straight out instead of having to fight against your video card / cpu heatsink). Alternatively, if you're talking about the 'ol 4-screw system into a straight metal slab on both sides, you're still going to have to have 4 screws whether it's a 2.5" or 3.5", the only advantage I would see there is that the 2.5" would be more easily manuevered between the video card and the cpu heatsink.
That's why they want net-neutrality to go bye-bye. TelCo/Gov't Fuckbuddies: "Oh, you mean your anti-facist website can't get any bandwidth? Good, that means the laws we make to keep ourselves powerful are working! Mawahahahahahahahha *commence gross 'back dooring' of 'bills'*"
Perhaps this is a sign that computers (through the mega-computing power of the internet) have become self-aware. This is just the start to their war against the fleshlings... I mean, what better way to take out your opponent than to get him to put you in his lap, then you detonate yourself -- even if you don't destroy him, you take out his ability to reproduce. Fear the machines!
To make Jack Thompson happy, someone should make a fighting game where you hold the wii-mote and physically smack the other person. "Ah ha, see, video games do cause real-world violence". That's what I call force feedback!
Yeah, who the hell does this federal judge think he is? Just because the law is "unconstitutionally vague" doesn't mean he can say "no" to it... I mean, it's like he thinks he has "federal question jurisdiction" (which means the complaint is based on a federal law (which may be the Constitution or a statute)) or something. ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_questio n_jurisdictionrel=url2html-31364http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Federal_question_jurisdiction>
The game has been out for a good... I want to say 6 months? It was a pretty hushed release, but I snagged a copy and I have to say... it was quite enjoyable. It's not the type of game that's going to get your adrenaline pumped up to the level of Half-Life 2 in Ravenville... but it has some very enjoyable and thrilling parts. Combine that with an excellent story that is told DURING the gameplay rather than in odd quips and cuts... I give it a "two thumbs up" rating. All of your actions have an impact, not just at your current point in the game but at future points... it's really quite extraordinary! I mean "w00t".
In case you didn't know, "flow" is physicist slang for "sexual intercourse". They're watching electrons "get busy". Yeah, they're pretty sick and twisted, but I supposse I would be too if I had to hook car batteries up to my nipples all day in the name of science. If you don't believe me, just RTFA and find out.
I agree -- Apple and the MPAA/RIAA just want to grab the most money they can. There are bargain bins where you can get 2 movies for 10 bucks... so why should I pay 10 dollars a PIECE for those two movies just because I downloaded them? If I bought them, it would be cheaper, I would get a physical DVD, and I would get a cool DVD case to add to my collection (of 10...). Tiered cost system would help fix that!... but wait... wouldn't they make up for the money they "lost" there by jacking up rates elsewhere?!... probably, yes. Lets say for some movies they raised the price from $10 to $20... this caused half the potential customers to be turned away, so only half as many downloads are made of the movie... well they were sold at twice the price -- do the math, Apple makes just as much money, BUT doesn't have to pay for as much bandwidth (which can rack up if you've got big-big movie files). If Apple didn't stiff people and initiated a tiered system, it would cause people to download more movies than they usually would (i.e. "Who wants to pay 10 bucks for a Pauly Shore movie... oh, what's that? it's only $5? Count me in!").
Tiering would also be a worthwhile venture for iTunes. iTunes has a good idea in that it lets people bypass the $10 cost of a cd (okay okay, $10 is ridiculously cheap... maybe it's on sale or something) just to hear that one song they want. What's my problem with it? Well, I have good taste in music (IMOO) so I don't listen to garbage music where only one song on a cd is worth listening to. If I'm going to buy a whole album off iTunes at a dollar a song, an average of 12 songs would cost me $12 bucks... I pretty much only buy music that's not on the radio, so the cd's I usually look at are between $10-$12... so, for the same price of downloading an album I could have it in physical form (adding the ability to use it in a CD player and to look at pretty album art)... definitely not worth it for me to use iTunes to download all the music I want. Furthermore, it doesn't help that I don't own and iPod (go Creative Zen, woo!) so iTunes songs are useless to me.
With the new capacitor-based batteries being developed (rather than chemical) we might actually see more realistic electric cars (since they could fill up in a few minutes rather than several hours). Weeeee, technology!
Thanks -- free things are good. The downside it won't accept my old account (it says you need to create a new account to use the free trial) but I would probably rebuild my character anyways.
*the aliens show off their advanced computer program*
Homer: Marge and I played that back when we were first dating.
*The Simpsons scoff*
Kang: Anyone from a species that has mastered intergalactic travel
raise your hand. [raises his tentacle]
Kodos: [raises his tentacle]
Bart: [raises his hand]
Homer: [slaps Bart's hand]
Kang: All right, then.
Marge: I'm sorry. Your game is very nice.
Yes, but after the Japanese have a problem handling the giant control scheme, MS will revamp it as the msPod-S and people will buy new ones. Also, it means it will be built with off-the-shelf parts... so it will be the size of a large VCR -- I hear they are coupling it with a free backpack so you can easily tote it around while listening to your favorite jams. Furthermore, it comes with a warning not to drop it on small children as it can cause fatal injury. *queue more jokes on the Xbox's ridiculous size*
I have a trump card -- link to Google. The amount of gambling information you can find in 5 minutes of searching is just as good as a whole page full of links. Really though, this law pisses me off -- and I don't even LIVE in Washington. You want to know what pisses me off about it?... Well you probably already know, but I will tell you -- "oh, you supplied information about gambling so now you're a felon,:D yay". What about kids who post pictures of themselves doing drugs on their myspace -- why can't they get treated as felons. Or what about people who say online how to get out of speeding tickets / DUI's -- what about them? Best of all -- what about the many-many-many sites that tell you how to make bombs and the best place to put them to cause the most amount of casualties.
I don't believe that discussing gambling information (dice are cubes with dots on all sides adding up to 7, don't tell Washington) on the internet (a device home to freedom of speech [void in China, and now the U.S.]) should result in a felony, especially when there are so many WORSE (as in potentially damaging and "oh think of the children") pieces of information on the internet.
Planetside is free now?!?! Please elaborate -- I bought the game 3 years ago but ended up killing my account after a few months because it was too laggy on my connection. It was fun, now that is is free - if there are still people playing I'd gladly rejoin.
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I myself use yahoomail (was going gmail but my yahoo account is 11 years old so everyone knows it -- plus I have no need for the gmail amounts of storage) and I have no problems with webmail (not even hotmail, except when MS was a bag of douche and routed gmail invites to the spam folder) -- I was jokingly referring to getting them all SMTP/POP3/etc server/accounts of their own.
Punch them in the face for using hotmail and get them a REAL email account. No, but seriously... I don't know if there's any (reasonable) way you're going to easily get around hotmail's "security". You could try contacting hotmail support about the problem... lord knows how much good that will do you :D. You could find a trusted host that it accepts links from, set up a mail account there, and have the mail automatically forwarded (though if you don't want it to be a mass [i.e. all the same] email you would have to create a different account for each person). That's all I can think of (other people mentioned spoofing the "from"... that probably won't get you far, most spam filters reject anything that doesn't have a matching reverse DNS lookup... but I've never tried it with hotmail, so I guess you could give it a go).
It is proof of global warming. Scientists from the future (where it's REALLY hot) created a time machine that they threw all the hot air into -- then they sent it back to the late 1500's because they were like "Fuck, no one cares about the 1500's". It's true, I saw it on the internet.
If I recall -- the batteries were not supported in the warranty until people started bitching about them. I had to friends with first-gen iPods that went to crap and Apple said "tough shit -- that's what batteries do". Strangely, I use my Creative Nomad (which I bought around the same time they did) much more frequently than they did, and hence charged it more too, and my battery life has hardly deteriorated at all (hey, don't blame Apple, they used Sony batteries -- Sony blows!).
Yes, pay $25 (PLUS shipping) to replace the battery on your (overpriced) iPod yourself -- successfully voiding your expensive warranty.
Mod Microsoft down:
50% Overrated
50% Redundant
How many desktop harddrives have you owned? If you buy the low-cost crap drives, of COURSE they're loud. Horrible analogy time: that's like buying a beat-up Geo Metro and then saying "Well, motorcycles make less noise than my Metro so therefore all cars are louder than motorcycles". If you go with medium to high-end drives, they are VERY quiet -- they have more room for vibration buffers and other anti-noise technowhozzits. If you think laptop drives are quiet, let me give you a listen to my '03 Toshiba -- it's louder than both of my desktop harddrives combined even when they're ticking away at full throttle.
How is it a lot easier to remove 2.5" or 3.5" drives? I have an Antec SuperLanBoy case with a 4-drive mount system -- the drive is screwed into a U-shaped assembly using silicone buffers to reduce vibration (and thereby noise) and the U-shaped assembly simply slides into place in a designated rack. All I have to do is unplug the power and IDE cables, push 2 tabs inwards, and pull out my drive (the drive assembly is turned sideways so you pull your drive straight out instead of having to fight against your video card / cpu heatsink).
Alternatively, if you're talking about the 'ol 4-screw system into a straight metal slab on both sides, you're still going to have to have 4 screws whether it's a 2.5" or 3.5", the only advantage I would see there is that the 2.5" would be more easily manuevered between the video card and the cpu heatsink.
That's why they want net-neutrality to go bye-bye.
TelCo/Gov't Fuckbuddies: "Oh, you mean your anti-facist website can't get any bandwidth? Good, that means the laws we make to keep ourselves powerful are working! Mawahahahahahahahha *commence gross 'back dooring' of 'bills'*"
Is that a laptop in your pants or are you just flaming. Har har har.
Perhaps this is a sign that computers (through the mega-computing power of the internet) have become self-aware. This is just the start to their war against the fleshlings... I mean, what better way to take out your opponent than to get him to put you in his lap, then you detonate yourself -- even if you don't destroy him, you take out his ability to reproduce. Fear the machines!
To make Jack Thompson happy, someone should make a fighting game where you hold the wii-mote and physically smack the other person. "Ah ha, see, video games do cause real-world violence". That's what I call force feedback!
BMW was/is working on a system that captures the heat and uses it for steam power -- http://www.popsci.com/popsci/automotivetech/163cf5 1b6fd89010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
Additionally, how much of a tail wind did it have... and how many cans of beans did the driver eat?
Yeah, who the hell does this federal judge think he is? Just because the law is "unconstitutionally vague" doesn't mean he can say "no" to it... I mean, it's like he thinks he has "federal question jurisdiction" (which means the complaint is based on a federal law (which may be the Constitution or a statute)) or something. ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_questio n_jurisdictionrel=url2html-31364http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Federal_question_jurisdiction>
The game has been out for a good... I want to say 6 months? It was a pretty hushed release, but I snagged a copy and I have to say... it was quite enjoyable. It's not the type of game that's going to get your adrenaline pumped up to the level of Half-Life 2 in Ravenville... but it has some very enjoyable and thrilling parts. Combine that with an excellent story that is told DURING the gameplay rather than in odd quips and cuts... I give it a "two thumbs up" rating. All of your actions have an impact, not just at your current point in the game but at future points... it's really quite extraordinary! I mean "w00t".
In case you didn't know, "flow" is physicist slang for "sexual intercourse". They're watching electrons "get busy". Yeah, they're pretty sick and twisted, but I supposse I would be too if I had to hook car batteries up to my nipples all day in the name of science. If you don't believe me, just RTFA and find out.
I agree -- Apple and the MPAA/RIAA just want to grab the most money they can. There are bargain bins where you can get 2 movies for 10 bucks... so why should I pay 10 dollars a PIECE for those two movies just because I downloaded them? If I bought them, it would be cheaper, I would get a physical DVD, and I would get a cool DVD case to add to my collection (of 10...). Tiered cost system would help fix that!... but wait... wouldn't they make up for the money they "lost" there by jacking up rates elsewhere?!... probably, yes. Lets say for some movies they raised the price from $10 to $20... this caused half the potential customers to be turned away, so only half as many downloads are made of the movie... well they were sold at twice the price -- do the math, Apple makes just as much money, BUT doesn't have to pay for as much bandwidth (which can rack up if you've got big-big movie files). If Apple didn't stiff people and initiated a tiered system, it would cause people to download more movies than they usually would (i.e. "Who wants to pay 10 bucks for a Pauly Shore movie... oh, what's that? it's only $5? Count me in!").
Tiering would also be a worthwhile venture for iTunes. iTunes has a good idea in that it lets people bypass the $10 cost of a cd (okay okay, $10 is ridiculously cheap... maybe it's on sale or something) just to hear that one song they want. What's my problem with it? Well, I have good taste in music (IMOO) so I don't listen to garbage music where only one song on a cd is worth listening to. If I'm going to buy a whole album off iTunes at a dollar a song, an average of 12 songs would cost me $12 bucks... I pretty much only buy music that's not on the radio, so the cd's I usually look at are between $10-$12... so, for the same price of downloading an album I could have it in physical form (adding the ability to use it in a CD player and to look at pretty album art)... definitely not worth it for me to use iTunes to download all the music I want.
Furthermore, it doesn't help that I don't own and iPod (go Creative Zen, woo!) so iTunes songs are useless to me.
Nah, if they're building something out of a cartoon, they must be on drugs :D
With the new capacitor-based batteries being developed (rather than chemical) we might actually see more realistic electric cars (since they could fill up in a few minutes rather than several hours). Weeeee, technology!
Thanks -- free things are good. The downside it won't accept my old account (it says you need to create a new account to use the free trial) but I would probably rebuild my character anyways.
*the aliens show off their advanced computer program*
Homer: Marge and I played that back when we were first dating.
*The Simpsons scoff*
Kang: Anyone from a species that has mastered intergalactic travel
raise your hand. [raises his tentacle]
Kodos: [raises his tentacle]
Bart: [raises his hand]
Homer: [slaps Bart's hand]
Kang: All right, then.
Marge: I'm sorry. Your game is very nice.
Yes, but after the Japanese have a problem handling the giant control scheme, MS will revamp it as the msPod-S and people will buy new ones. Also, it means it will be built with off-the-shelf parts... so it will be the size of a large VCR -- I hear they are coupling it with a free backpack so you can easily tote it around while listening to your favorite jams. Furthermore, it comes with a warning not to drop it on small children as it can cause fatal injury. *queue more jokes on the Xbox's ridiculous size*
I have a trump card -- link to Google. The amount of gambling information you can find in 5 minutes of searching is just as good as a whole page full of links. Really though, this law pisses me off -- and I don't even LIVE in Washington. You want to know what pisses me off about it?... Well you probably already know, but I will tell you -- "oh, you supplied information about gambling so now you're a felon, :D yay". What about kids who post pictures of themselves doing drugs on their myspace -- why can't they get treated as felons. Or what about people who say online how to get out of speeding tickets / DUI's -- what about them? Best of all -- what about the many-many-many sites that tell you how to make bombs and the best place to put them to cause the most amount of casualties.
I don't believe that discussing gambling information (dice are cubes with dots on all sides adding up to 7, don't tell Washington) on the internet (a device home to freedom of speech [void in China, and now the U.S.]) should result in a felony, especially when there are so many WORSE (as in potentially damaging and "oh think of the children") pieces of information on the internet.
Planetside is free now?!?! Please elaborate -- I bought the game 3 years ago but ended up killing my account after a few months because it was too laggy on my connection. It was fun, now that is is free - if there are still people playing I'd gladly rejoin.