Cerebral Stasis

I would never pay a monthly fee for an internet service (that's why I'm using Xisto's free hosting package). As has been said, there are always alternatives if one service goes bad. Thankfully, I doubt we'll ever have to worry about something like a monthly fee just to search the internet (I'd be more worried about email-postage stamps).

Agreed. Red vs. Blue, in my opinion, beats professional comedy (Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc.) by miles. They just can't compare to the brilliant jokes that the Rooster Teeth team comes up with.

 

Church: "Hey, Alien; is your name 'Honk Honk'?"

Alien: "Blarg"

Church: "Hey, wait a second - I think 'blarg' means yes. Hey Alien, does 'blarg' mean yes?"

Alien: "Blarg"

Church: "Holy ****! Yes! 'Blarg' means yes! I can speak alien!"

Tex: "Yeah, unless 'blarg' mean no, in which case no, 'blarg' does NOT mean yes."

Church: "What? No way! Hey, Alien, am I right?"

Alien: "Blarg"

Church: "Haha, see? What the **** do you know?"

 

Personally, they don't bother me, exept for those smilie flash banners that make noise when you roll your mouse over them. It's very annoying, to put it mildly, especially when one is listening to something. Furthermore, I have the inexplicable urge to roll over it again... and again...

To be frank, they're not that great.Your background abstract is good, but the text is disgusting. You seriously need to try a different font/blending method.The render in your first one fits into the background and such alright, but the render in the second one has stray pixels around the edges, the image of the girl doesn't blend well, and the animation is confusing (are they supposed to be bullets), ugly, and unnecessary.Overall: 2/10YOU LOSE! Thank you for playing.

The Popular Mechanics article said that this technology isn't going to come out until 2008, and then it will be used for labels on perscription medicine bottles. Whether it is being downplayed or not, I don't know, but I wouldn't get too excited just yet.The price of the thin-screen products will all depend on the manufacturer, msdeeva. If it's made in an Oriental country with Communism or slave/cheap labor, it probably won't cost much more than it's actual value (perhaps even less) until the Oriental company controls the market of the product, at which time prices will skyrocket, but if it's made in a Free Enterprise nation, such as the United States, the business that creates said technology will try to suck as much money out of it as they can, until other companies began trying to sell the same technology for cheaper and cheaper, at which point the prices will drop in order to create commercial competition.

I've never had a chance to try any Acer LCD screens, but I have an Acer LCD monitor on my personal computer at home, and I must say they are an excellent brand; inexpensive and high quality.If you have a digital camera, maybe you could post some pictures of your new screen in action.

No, you'll never get enough energy out of the wind power being absorbed by any turbine on a moving car to make up for any energy lost. The extra drag and such would equal the energy out so that you'd be getting no advantage.As for the water, the problem is that, aside from currents, there is very little movement in the ocean water; waves only disturb the surface.

I'd just like to point out that, as mentioned, children under the age of 13 can't legally participate in the online community (email, chat, forum, etc.) without the direct permission/supervision of an adult. Since that means that we only need to worry about kids 13 and older, I would like to go further and point out that movies can use the "s" and "f" word and still be rated PG-13. Thus, one can assume that "hardcore" language is actually allowed around 13-year-olds. It's the violence and sex that aren't.

What a moron! Everyone knows the way to get a girl is by taking advantage of her shallow personality by buying her silly gifts and useless bits of odd junk.

I thought the meaning of life was to work your way to the top, hoard power, and stomp over all those that get in your way.

If that really as real I would like to see it take off.  Of course it would look sort of like a rocket but it wouldn't be sort of fun to take off straight up in the air and then curve off.  They would have to make the plane a lot more powerful and modify the engine if they want to have it take off out of the water.

If it was real, I would certainly like to see it in action as well, but it isn't. Read my previous post. There's no longer any reason to speculate about if it is - it isn't.

I have supposedly been an affiliate for nearly a month and a half now, yet my affiliate button isn't displayed anywhere (and I've been displaying the GFXTrap button (and a banner I made) not only on my website, but also in all my forum signatures, both in this forum and in others). My website was accepted, so I expect to see the button displayed.

Well, FF is a very popular browser, and one of the few mainstream browsers that can display the .png image files that you seem so fond of in all their 32-bit glory.

The biggest problem with the GFXTrap website on different resolutions is the obnoxiously gigantic header image. You should try for something that can be viewed on 800x600 pixel screen without having to scroll left and right (just make the image itself smaller and put it on top of a table that blends in with the image color).

Not to mention quite a few of those affiliate images aren't showing/are in a random configuration. It definately needs some heavy optimization/redesigning. I also am using Firefox, and I don't see much of interest - Just the same oversized header, two grey nav bars, and a bit of content in the middle; not too impressive, to be frank.By the way, I affiliated my website with GFXTrap - so why isn't my button on that list (or displayed on the GFXTrap pages)?

What are you playing, Arigato? I have a fair bit of slow-down in some games (although I crank the realism settings up all the way), and I'm using 2Gb of RAM (although I believe it is only DDR; not DDR2, so that would be a factor).

Does one really have a choice? Around this area in the United States, anyway, it is illegal to dispose of tires without hiring a professional to do so for you (one cannot bury, burn, or otherwise try to dispose of a tire on one's own), which means a big expense. Unless one wants to pay to get rid of a useless eyesore, one would recycle simply to one's own financial benefit.

It would only be done to someone who were considered to be a national security risk or perhaps a suspect of some crime.As for breaking into one's house, the government wouldn't have any trouble either hiring someone who could break into a house, plant a bug, and leave no trace, or make it look like a petty robbery, but leave a bug behind.

I don't see how the end would be NEARER due to us having an efficient defence against missile strikes.

Becuse before 50 years ago a radia was big as your tv almost.

 

No, that was more like 75 years ago. By the 1950s, vacuum tubes were being made small enough to make a counter-top radio possible, and the transistor, which eventually completely replaced the vacuum tube, had already been invented and was beginning to be applied in electronics more and more.

A two-tube (homemade) radio from 1958.

 

Anyway, I don't think that anyone would pay more than 20 to 25 dollars for an AM or FM radio, since AM/FM have pretty much gone down the drain as far as interesting content is concerned. In the case of an emergency, a walkman handheld radio powered by double-A batteries would be much more efficient for picking up urgent broadcasts.

For a guy, a video ipod would be awesome, but i don't think girls have the patients to go through and learn how to convert normal video files into ipod video file type.

Don't be sexist, now.

After a little Goggle search:

its actually footage of an uwsa(under water surface to air missile) with a jet superimposed over the actual missile these are fired from the same silos that nuclear missiles are fired from in a submarine

According to the "Sliver Screen" article in Popular Mechanics, this technology only supports black-and-white screens at the moment (I know the image seems to show otherwise, but PopMec used the same image for their article, and I'm assuming they are better informed than we are), but the screens are run by printable batteries that are just as thin and flexible as the display.

Either that or it was too expensive to be mass produced without the company losing money.

That's up for debate, JC05. One COULD tell five other people and sign up for a few 30 day free trial things and then cancel those subscriptions before the free trial was expired. That way, one would technically be getting said item for free (may have claimed that it really works).