you say "Ow." and you might go woozy or you might get emotional or some part of your body might not work right
Call of Cthulhu the PC game handles this very well. While you do have a form of hitpoints on your character sheet (an EKG), your real indicators of your state are the blurred vision that gets worse with additional damage, blood spatter in your view, vision slowly going white from blood-loss, controls that stop working quite correctly, labored breathing, and the slow shuffle of walking on a broken leg with that horrible little crunching noise with each step. Insanity-inducing events or locations pull in some of these elements as well, such as the vision problems, breathing, and loss of movement control. All in all, the game is downright heart-pounding at various points throughout.
Ummm, nice slant on that summary. Exploiting security vulnerabilities before disclosing them is an entirely different matter. This kid isn't anybody's hero for explaining about the hole after it had already been fixed, what was that supposed to have served anyhow?
Yeah you're right, explosives can be hidden in almost anything. So, the logical conclusion is to knock down all buildings, and bulldoze the entire city completely flat so that anything suspicious will stand out. And you'll have to put the people somewhere else too. Simply making them go naked won't work, since they tend to carry illegal things in their bums.
There's being cautious and there's being retarded.
If you only need one or two at a time, sure build your own. But what about when you need 50, or 100? Have fun with that. Also with parts warranties spread across several vendors you'll be having extra fun when things start breaking down.
If we let this kind of thought take hold, then the terrorists have already won.
We've heard that statement so many times in the last several years that they have surely won several times over by now, and we're just in denial of that.
under what possible set of circumstances would ANYONE market a product that would want to behave indepently from it's owners wishes?
Pet stores sell cats, and people actually buy them. But more seriously, how boring it is that machines are still so very predictable. I would want to own software that produced an independent AI in my desktop for sure, it doesn't even have to be a robot/android. Not that I'd necessarily rely on it to get things done in my own interests, but the coolness factor of having a smart machine intelligence with its own motivations is way too interesting to poo-poo. They would sell, because they would be approaching the same level of interestingness that humans have.
perhaps anthropomorphizing more things would lead us to treat actual human beings better
No, we mistreat our fellow human beings because we perceive them as assholes that will inevitably let us down. Usually because enough of them actually have done so in the average person's life. So we anthropomorphize objects and animals as a means of pretending to have 'safe' human contact, because those things rarely betray us, and never maliciously. Doing more of that just makes the problem worse, since you don't need to be nice to real people if you have enough pretend ones to hang with.
It's an initiative geared to solving the problem of stray televisions wandering the streets. Apparently they cause a lot of traffic congestion, that's why you have to pay to drive in downtown London. They also like to pee on some guy named Lou. Weirdos.
I find that 192 is generally 'good enough'. Until I hear the same track at 260 through the same speakers and realize what I was missing. I'm not one of those guys that spends thousands of dollars on stereo equipment either, quite the opposite. In my iPod Shuffle it's definitely noticable. In the car, it's the Shuffle connected to a tape cassette converter. On my PC, it's $150 speakers. The difference in fullness of tone is immediate. Do I really care when an mp3 is 'only' at 192? No, not really, since I keep the music in my head anyway and the mp3 is just reminding me of the tempo and pitch, but 260kbps or higher is still a nicer experience. If I bothered to get a music player with enough room to do so I'd probably fill it with.wav files just because I could, rather than from any sort of obsession about the sound. But I know I'd be enjoying the sound a bit more at least.
I played MUDs back in the day. They were free and had no pretty graphics at all. They were every bit as addictive as the ones we have now. Rife with students flunking out, or people jeopardizing their jobs to play. So no, I don't buy the idea that the cost makes you want to get your money's worth.
I'm waiting for the day when its not funny any more...
You missed it already. See, it gets not-funny after awhile, and then using it becomes the joke itself and so it is made funny again, only to eventually be over-used and become not funny again. Repeat until the sun goes nova.
A "full format" is actually just a quick format with chkdsk running on it at the same time. It does not 'erase' the drive any more thoroughly than a quick one.
I can understand a reactivation with a motherboard swap, but not with a RAM upgrade.
I made the mistake of activating XP two different ways on the exact same hardware, and wound up having to phone in. The first time I installed XP on that machine, I activated after I installed all of my drivers. After the first nuke 'n pave, I chose to activate during the OS install, before getting to the desktop for the first time, and it thought I had a whole different computer. That pissed me off. Then I changed my video card later on, just that, and the next time I reinstalled the OS, I remembered to do it at the install phase again, but I still wound up being denied and having to phone in again.
We then get this mass of creative fiction, published among other places as fact
Umm, it's entirely factual that such a body of creative work exists, and the wiki article explains the phenomena quite accurately. The church itself as being real is another story, but the wikipedia article clearly begins by stating it's a parody religion, yet another True Fact(TM). So what's your problem exactly?
If we mess it up, we can always just replace it, right?
Does anybody know if we remembered to extend the planet's warranty? It's been a very long time to have kept a receipt. And what if they don't stock the parts anymore because of newer models?
So, you want school children to learn millions of planets instead of eight, just so Pluto can be a planet?
Then they'd have to learn things like, "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us New Pajamas Which Didn't Fit Properly So We Had To Go Back To Walmart And Exchange Them For Better Ones But We Didn't Have The Receipt So There Was Nothing Else To Do But Cause A Distraction In The Store And Run Out With The Correct Ones And Then We Went To McDonald's And I Had A Big Mac With Small Fries But Then..."
I went through three of the 75 GB "click of death" DeskStars, though I managed to 'fix' the third one because I was tired of going back to the store to exchange the damn things. The first drive lasted close to a month before developing the click of death when accessing a certain area of the drive. The second one lasted about 3 days, and it got the click in a couple of different areas. The third one went about a week before giving out, but I'd had enough by then so I just used scandisk to do a full surface scan so I could see what block it was failing on, partitioned around that with a bit of leeway (sacrificed about 50MB), and that drive has run 24/7 without a hitch for about 5 years now. Those drives are weird that way: the error sounds awful, a loud rhythmic scraping like the thing is shredding itself up inside. It would not happen immediately after purchase, and hit on a different section of each drive I had. Yet simply avoiding that damaged area has let the third one run very reliably, and no other bad spots have developed.
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you say "Ow." and you might go woozy or you might get emotional or some part of your body might not work right
Call of Cthulhu the PC game handles this very well. While you do have a form of hitpoints on your character sheet (an EKG), your real indicators of your state are the blurred vision that gets worse with additional damage, blood spatter in your view, vision slowly going white from blood-loss, controls that stop working quite correctly, labored breathing, and the slow shuffle of walking on a broken leg with that horrible little crunching noise with each step. Insanity-inducing events or locations pull in some of these elements as well, such as the vision problems, breathing, and loss of movement control. All in all, the game is downright heart-pounding at various points throughout.
Clearly, disclosing security vulnerabilities doesn't pay.
Ummm, nice slant on that summary. Exploiting security vulnerabilities before disclosing them is an entirely different matter. This kid isn't anybody's hero for explaining about the hole after it had already been fixed, what was that supposed to have served anyhow?
Yeah you're right, explosives can be hidden in almost anything. So, the logical conclusion is to knock down all buildings, and bulldoze the entire city completely flat so that anything suspicious will stand out. And you'll have to put the people somewhere else too. Simply making them go naked won't work, since they tend to carry illegal things in their bums.
There's being cautious and there's being retarded.
Actually, the summary made me think of the cliche instantly with this line:
The cell is capable of storing a file the size of the United States' Declaration of Independence with room left over.
I mused to myself, "Cool, now we can measure storage in USDoIs!" I fully expected to see the very posts you are complaining about after that.
Ok, now that we got that out of our system, we can procede.
Wait, wait, we need someone to play spelling Nazi before we can truly proceed. There, that's better.
If you only need one or two at a time, sure build your own. But what about when you need 50, or 100? Have fun with that. Also with parts warranties spread across several vendors you'll be having extra fun when things start breaking down.
If we let this kind of thought take hold, then the terrorists have already won.
We've heard that statement so many times in the last several years that they have surely won several times over by now, and we're just in denial of that.
under what possible set of circumstances would ANYONE market a product that would want to behave indepently from it's owners wishes?
Pet stores sell cats, and people actually buy them. But more seriously, how boring it is that machines are still so very predictable. I would want to own software that produced an independent AI in my desktop for sure, it doesn't even have to be a robot/android. Not that I'd necessarily rely on it to get things done in my own interests, but the coolness factor of having a smart machine intelligence with its own motivations is way too interesting to poo-poo. They would sell, because they would be approaching the same level of interestingness that humans have.
perhaps anthropomorphizing more things would lead us to treat actual human beings better
No, we mistreat our fellow human beings because we perceive them as assholes that will inevitably let us down. Usually because enough of them actually have done so in the average person's life. So we anthropomorphize objects and animals as a means of pretending to have 'safe' human contact, because those things rarely betray us, and never maliciously. Doing more of that just makes the problem worse, since you don't need to be nice to real people if you have enough pretend ones to hang with.
what the hell is a TV license?
It's an initiative geared to solving the problem of stray televisions wandering the streets. Apparently they cause a lot of traffic congestion, that's why you have to pay to drive in downtown London. They also like to pee on some guy named Lou. Weirdos.
"Boss! Boss! Deplane! Deplane!"
I find that 192 is generally 'good enough'. Until I hear the same track at 260 through the same speakers and realize what I was missing. I'm not one of those guys that spends thousands of dollars on stereo equipment either, quite the opposite. In my iPod Shuffle it's definitely noticable. In the car, it's the Shuffle connected to a tape cassette converter. On my PC, it's $150 speakers. The difference in fullness of tone is immediate. Do I really care when an mp3 is 'only' at 192? No, not really, since I keep the music in my head anyway and the mp3 is just reminding me of the tempo and pitch, but 260kbps or higher is still a nicer experience. If I bothered to get a music player with enough room to do so I'd probably fill it with .wav files just because I could, rather than from any sort of obsession about the sound. But I know I'd be enjoying the sound a bit more at least.
I played MUDs back in the day. They were free and had no pretty graphics at all. They were every bit as addictive as the ones we have now. Rife with students flunking out, or people jeopardizing their jobs to play. So no, I don't buy the idea that the cost makes you want to get your money's worth.
I'm waiting for the day when its not funny any more...
You missed it already. See, it gets not-funny after awhile, and then using it becomes the joke itself and so it is made funny again, only to eventually be over-used and become not funny again. Repeat until the sun goes nova.
A "full format" is actually just a quick format with chkdsk running on it at the same time. It does not 'erase' the drive any more thoroughly than a quick one.
Of course it's not a truck, everyone knows that data takes the bus.
She swiped a card with a man's name on it, and they didn't ask to see ID,
You've got to be more observant, it's the adam's apple that's the give-away you know.
I think its going to be to difficult too resist, for correcting someones spelling brings it's own reward in alot of self-satisfaction.
I can understand a reactivation with a motherboard swap, but not with a RAM upgrade.
I made the mistake of activating XP two different ways on the exact same hardware, and wound up having to phone in. The first time I installed XP on that machine, I activated after I installed all of my drivers. After the first nuke 'n pave, I chose to activate during the OS install, before getting to the desktop for the first time, and it thought I had a whole different computer. That pissed me off. Then I changed my video card later on, just that, and the next time I reinstalled the OS, I remembered to do it at the install phase again, but I still wound up being denied and having to phone in again.
We then get this mass of creative fiction, published among other places as fact
Umm, it's entirely factual that such a body of creative work exists, and the wiki article explains the phenomena quite accurately. The church itself as being real is another story, but the wikipedia article clearly begins by stating it's a parody religion, yet another True Fact(TM). So what's your problem exactly?
There's no such thing as a frivilous counterclaim once you've been sued.
But what if you're counter-suing "because they are a bunch of big poopyheads"?
If we mess it up, we can always just replace it, right?
Does anybody know if we remembered to extend the planet's warranty? It's been a very long time to have kept a receipt. And what if they don't stock the parts anymore because of newer models?
I think we should start a campaign where we go and fart in smoker's spaces.
The trouble with that plan is that we all carry lighters.
So, you want school children to learn millions of planets instead of eight, just so Pluto can be a planet?
Then they'd have to learn things like, "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us New Pajamas Which Didn't Fit Properly So We Had To Go Back To Walmart And Exchange Them For Better Ones But We Didn't Have The Receipt So There Was Nothing Else To Do But Cause A Distraction In The Store And Run Out With The Correct Ones And Then We Went To McDonald's And I Had A Big Mac With Small Fries But Then..."
I went through three of the 75 GB "click of death" DeskStars, though I managed to 'fix' the third one because I was tired of going back to the store to exchange the damn things. The first drive lasted close to a month before developing the click of death when accessing a certain area of the drive. The second one lasted about 3 days, and it got the click in a couple of different areas. The third one went about a week before giving out, but I'd had enough by then so I just used scandisk to do a full surface scan so I could see what block it was failing on, partitioned around that with a bit of leeway (sacrificed about 50MB), and that drive has run 24/7 without a hitch for about 5 years now. Those drives are weird that way: the error sounds awful, a loud rhythmic scraping like the thing is shredding itself up inside. It would not happen immediately after purchase, and hit on a different section of each drive I had. Yet simply avoiding that damaged area has let the third one run very reliably, and no other bad spots have developed.