First Audiogalaxy goes, now this. Tag's Trance is... was... the very best radio station ever. Traditional or Internet. It will be missed by a great many.
Are you enjoying yourself? That's all that matters.
Being a geek could be defined as enjoying (tech related?) things that most others wouldn't. As a side effect, we tend to hang out with other geeks, and are therefore detached from the "normal" social scene. When all your geek friends like anime/sci-fi/MTG/whatever, it tends to rub off on you. Again, "normal" people don't find some of those things enjoyable, but we usually do.
Just a theory. BTW, if you're not enjoying yourself, I suggest you pick yourself up a copy of Princess Mononoke or Akira and give it a chance. Maybe watch what's arguably some of the best films ever made (Star Wars). You might be pleasantly surprised.
If you fall a long ways, try to land on a vehicle, they won't hurt you, no matter how fast you're falling. If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph. Asteroids have atmospheres If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it. Gravity does not apply to heads in helmets
Okay...
They're Jedi, they have the Force to protect them from injury. Again, he's a Jedi, he used the Force to slow it. Man, I wish I knew as much as you did about a galaxy from a long time ago that's far, far away. Maybe Naboo has something in the atmosphere that slows the aging process. Maybe it's a fruit on the planet? Maybe she's been genetically altered? Maybe she's not fully human? The list of possible reasons goes on almost endlessly. His helmet probably had special connectors or something that held itself to his head. When you swing your head around to fire at the man with the lightsaber running at you it'd really screw you up if your helmet flew off because it wasn't attached to your head securely.
You subscribed to those magazines, and they're sending you renewal notices. This is not deceptive, this can even be seen as helpful.
What Verisign is doing is sending letters to people who registered domains with a different company that look like renewal notices when, in fact, they're disguised "register your domain with us instead of them!" letters. This is deceptive, and borderline illegal.
I have a number of domains registered, and IIRC I got a letter for every single one of them. I knew they were BS from the start, but that's only because I've been on the Internet for around 8 years and I know what's going on. To "Joe User" it would probably look legit, and they'd pay three times as much to renew their domains and support more of these letters being sent to other people.
IIRC, the click-thru licence does tell you that it's going to delete information on your computer, and it is specific about what it will remove. Just because people blindly click "Next" and don't read isn't the company's fault, although they are taking advantage of it.
I don't like it any more than you do, but it's worth pointing out.
I use Cox@Home in Phoenix and it's up and working fine. Maybe it is a local outage somewhere? I'm roughly two miles from Metrocenter Mall. I don't use the mail and stuff tho, so I have no idea about that.
Multiplayer games will mostly be written under Win CE because it has access to the modem. Network config, dial up, and all related activites will be handled diffrently by each specific game depending on how it works (connect to server, direct dial, LAN party [if Sega and/or a third party releases a LAN card], etc.).
This right after the story about AOL's password problem. With so many members of the general public being stupid enough to run any.exe that shows up in their mailbox imagine what could happen here.
"Excellent, that bastard next door is diabetic. I'll teach him to let his tree grow into my yard!"
What do you mean what does it mean? It means this massive object orbiting our sun could be the mothership of those blasted aliens that live in our washer/dryers and steal our socks, underwear, and other items of clothing to power their cold fusion engines and provide their replicators with raw material. Think about it, they're probably using their tractor beams to deflect the comets from hitting us so their greatest supplier of raw materials doesn't die out!
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So no one is going to make processors that don't suck ass for one reason or another now? Perfect. Just perfect.
And please, don't say anything about Cyrix.
Too bad that source doesn't compile correctly all the time.
First Audiogalaxy goes, now this. Tag's Trance is... was... the very best radio station ever. Traditional or Internet. It will be missed by a great many.
Are you enjoying yourself? That's all that matters.
Being a geek could be defined as enjoying (tech related?) things that most others wouldn't. As a side effect, we tend to hang out with other geeks, and are therefore detached from the "normal" social scene. When all your geek friends like anime/sci-fi/MTG/whatever, it tends to rub off on you. Again, "normal" people don't find some of those things enjoyable, but we usually do.
Just a theory. BTW, if you're not enjoying yourself, I suggest you pick yourself up a copy of Princess Mononoke or Akira and give it a chance. Maybe watch what's arguably some of the best films ever made (Star Wars). You might be pleasantly surprised.
*minor spoilers
If you fall a long ways, try to land on a vehicle, they won't hurt you, no matter how fast you're falling.
If you're in a vehicle, just stick you hand out to catch something, it won't even hit your hand hard enough to make you flench, even if you're going 200 mph.
Asteroids have atmospheres
If you age 10 years and are a woman, you won't look it.
Gravity does not apply to heads in helmets
Okay...
They're Jedi, they have the Force to protect them from injury.
Again, he's a Jedi, he used the Force to slow it.
Man, I wish I knew as much as you did about a galaxy from a long time ago that's far, far away.
Maybe Naboo has something in the atmosphere that slows the aging process. Maybe it's a fruit on the planet? Maybe she's been genetically altered? Maybe she's not fully human? The list of possible reasons goes on almost endlessly.
His helmet probably had special connectors or something that held itself to his head. When you swing your head around to fire at the man with the lightsaber running at you it'd really screw you up if your helmet flew off because it wasn't attached to your head securely.
Anything else?
You subscribed to those magazines, and they're sending you renewal notices. This is not deceptive, this can even be seen as helpful.
What Verisign is doing is sending letters to people who registered domains with a different company that look like renewal notices when, in fact, they're disguised "register your domain with us instead of them!" letters. This is deceptive, and borderline illegal.
I have a number of domains registered, and IIRC I got a letter for every single one of them. I knew they were BS from the start, but that's only because I've been on the Internet for around 8 years and I know what's going on. To "Joe User" it would probably look legit, and they'd pay three times as much to renew their domains and support more of these letters being sent to other people.
For shame!
I load up Slashdot only to find an add for Bawls from ThinkGeek acompanied by a story about more balls...
Makes me crave the days when there were stories about Apple's Cube. At least we had some right angles to mess around with back then.
IIRC, the click-thru licence does tell you that it's going to delete information on your computer, and it is specific about what it will remove. Just because people blindly click "Next" and don't read isn't the company's fault, although they are taking advantage of it.
I don't like it any more than you do, but it's worth pointing out.
Just replace the "www" part of the URL with "archive" and you no longer need to register! Marvel!
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Observe:
http://archive.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/technology/
Enjoy.
Yeah, well, in my day we weren't anal about spelling...
*sheds a tear*
You're a meanie!
In my day, we actually saw the movie before deciding weather it was good or not...
I use Cox@Home in Phoenix and it's up and working fine. Maybe it is a local outage somewhere? I'm roughly two miles from Metrocenter Mall. I don't use the mail and stuff tho, so I have no idea about that.
You do realise IDE cables don't have to be ribbon, you can find rounded IDE cables everywhere, or even make them yourself.
Multiplayer games will mostly be written under Win CE because it has access to the modem. Network config, dial up, and all related activites will be handled diffrently by each specific game depending on how it works (connect to server, direct dial, LAN party [if Sega and/or a third party releases a LAN card], etc.).
"Excellent, that bastard next door is diabetic. I'll teach him to let his tree grow into my yard!"
Sigh.
Ahh, finally, the bathroom computer comes home. No more printing /. to keep me entertained during #2, now it's all gonna be live!
What do you mean what does it mean? It means this massive object orbiting our sun could be the mothership of those blasted aliens that live in our washer/dryers and steal our socks, underwear, and other items of clothing to power their cold fusion engines and provide their replicators with raw material. Think about it, they're probably using their tractor beams to deflect the comets from hitting us so their greatest supplier of raw materials doesn't die out!