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oops - forgot to include link to full story in OP. The OP is edited to include it now.
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Penn & Teller gaming Morgan van Humbeck completed his shift in front of the television and passed out. Ten minutes later, his cell phone woke him. “Morgan, this is Teller,” said a small voice on the other end of the line. “Fuck off,” replied Morgan in disbelief. He hung up the phone and went back to sleep. The drive from Tucson, Arizona, to Las Vegas, Nevada, takes approximately eight hours when travelling in a vehicle whose top speed is forty-five miles per hour. In Desert Bus, an unreleased video game from 1995 conceived by the American illusionists and entertainers Penn Jillette and Teller, players must complete that journey in real time. ... the vehicle constantly lists to the right, so players cannot take their hands off the virtual wheel; swerving from the road will cause the bus’s engine to stall, forcing the player to be towed back to the beginning. The game cannot be paused. The bus carries no virtual passengers to add human interest, and there is no traffic to negotiate. The only scenery is the odd sand-pocked rock or road sign. Players earn a single point for each eight-hour trip completed between the two cities, making a Desert Bus high score perhaps the most costly in gaming. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/07/the-worst-video-game-ever-created.html |
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Try leaving the phone in a bowl of uncooked rice for a day or two - it might absorb the moisture.
Lol what the hell am I reading? Urban legend states this is a good idea. I think it actually is, though. Rice is a natural desiccant (absorbs moisture). There are limits however. |
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Pretty tough to pick a single "best movie you have ever seen." Here are 10 that I really like that come to mind quickly. If I spent more time I know I would come up with others that would bump some of these off my list.
Blade Runner
Casablanca
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lord of the Rings trilogy *
The Red Violin
A Fistful of Dollars
Hombre
Forbidden Planet
The Maltese Falcon
Thunder Road
* Counts as 1 movie
And here are some that didn't make my list (or anyone else's so far) apparently because they are too damn funny to be on a list like this:
Animal House
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Caddyshack
Stripes
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Does "assault weapon" mean anything that can be used as a weapon to assault another person? Like baseball bats, 2x4s, steak knives, cars, steel pipes, odd objects d'art, folding chairs, fertilizer, fire arms, etc? Sounds extreme to ban all of those things. Maybe we should just outlaw murder and assault.
Oh yeah? Sure its for self defense. What if someone gets an assault rifle for the purpose of "self defense" and then uses that to kill someone? Sure other people with guns might kill the aggressor. But what if that guy already killed someone? Just one person. What if that person was you? Or one of your family members? And that stupid argument that says we need to outlaw every other thing that could kill or harm people (i.e. gravity, knives, bats) if we ban assault weapons. Just think this way. If you were going to kill a bunch of kids in a school, what would be your weapon of choice? A knife? A shotgun? A pistol? A piece of wood? Maybe something that can spit out the most projectiles per second? i.e. An assault rifle? I made no such argument. I asked for a definition of "assault weapon" and then threw out one possible definition. So once "assault weapons" are banned, then what? Mass killings by warped minds will still take place. Do you think the body count will drop? And the 2nd ammemdment isn't (only) there just so people can "self defend" in simple one-on-one crimes. It's part of the whole government derived from the people concept. The people should have the power, not the government. Also, if you need to resort to debasing adjectives to prop up your logic, then you probably need to re-evaluate your logic. |
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Does "assault weapon" mean anything that can be used as a weapon to assault another person? Like baseball bats, 2x4s, steak knives, cars, steel pipes, odd objects d'art, folding chairs, fertilizer, fire arms, etc? Sounds extreme to ban all of those things. Maybe we should just outlaw murder and assault.
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Favorite line of them all: Ever dollar you put into your paypal and such actually exists. You could put that paypal money into a bank account and withdraw real legal tender, that you could then take to the treasury and exchange for the gold that its backed by if you wish. Pretty funny that they think dollars are still backed by gold. Or maybe it was a 105 year-old gamer that just forgot about FDR. |
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I don't see Morsi staying in power much longer. He'll soon be out of there one way or another. My judgement may be clouded by my hopes though. Unfortunately for the Egyptian people they won't get any help from the U.S. Obama runs foreign affairs based upon what he thinks some people will think. For some reason he thinks it will make him look good if he sticks by Morsi. If he instead stuck to the reasoning that got him to say Mubarak should go then he would be saying the same thing about Morsi.
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A large part of the answer has to do with how the media has presented or ignored it.
The U.S. national media (TV networks, NYTimes, etc.) have pretty much focused on the plight of Snowden and ignored their duty to follow up on Snowden's allegations. They report what Snowden has said, but have done little investigative journalism of their own to invalidate, confirm, or expand on Snowden's words. The few stories that have come out since (google, facebook, etc. helping NSA) were dumped in their laps. I think they would liked to have buried the whole affair but couldn't because it was getting so much attention from non-U.S. media. They are so used to "reporting" to sway public perception and opinion against this type of thing. Now they have a situation where public opinion is already firmly outraged about it, but they don't want to fan the flames because it looks really bad for Obama and they have so much invested in him. |
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Looks like a sha256 hash. Type the code in the text field at the following website: http://crackstation.netClick the submit button. After request goes through, page indicates that the result of the first line is 228082. Don't know about the rest. Ha! Too Funny - I was in the process of using that website as you posted this! But since all of the answers are numbers, I don't think it is quite right. Those results are only for unsalted hashes. jaxkr hinted that the cleartext should contain words. |
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Welcome to the "Read and Comment on the First Post Only" Society.
I shall post without reading the first post. How did you lose $10,000? I made a bet that the sky was going to be purple on April 1, 2013. This explains a lot. I sometimes wondered what color the sky was in your world  Good to hear you found your stash. |
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Will the regulators be hot? Will there be spanking?
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RoadToHell
Free bitcoins are always better than a sharp stick in the eye. Thanks for doing this!
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It's a good thing that toilets were invented before the patent offices got all wacky. Otherwise we'd all be up sh*t creek.
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"Our family doesn't really talk about this, but in the spirit of full disclosure I need to mention it. The Hamburglar is my uncle. (On my dad's side of course) I don't have any idea of his where-abouts. Of course I would contact the authorities right away if I did."
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Speaking of tarts... Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. |
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I was travelling through Romania last summer and saw a middle aged man measuring the surface area of a living room with [what looked to me as being] chocolate and marshmallow Pop Tarts. I'm unsure if this is standard practice in the less developed Eastern European countries because Pop tarts over here cost a fortune, surely there are cheaper ways of doing this?
He wasn't measuring the floor. This is indeed common practice all over Europe by people having heated floors and broken toasters. Wait - they have pop-tarts in Romania? |
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Keep in mind that you are trying to learn two (major) things at the same time:
1) How to program, and
2) The C++ programming language.
Most large programming language books are written to sell large programming books. They are not efficient at teaching fundamental programming skills to new programmers. And they are not efficient at helping experienced programmers pick up a new language based on what they already know about other programming languages.
Learning to program is an iterative process. You need to read some and you need to do some. Find some existing source code and go through it until you understand it. Find a simple project on the internet or from your book's CD and go through it. Make changes to it.
Since you are interested in making games, find some game source code and start making changes to it. Start with some small changes just so you can get the feedback of seeing results. Build from there. If your book doesn't have a good language reference section then find one on the internet or buy a language reference. The value of having a reference book that you can actually thumb through can't be overstated.
Once you have a handle on the overall constructs of C++ programming you might want to concentrate next on getting a high level view of types of things that can be done. Don't worry about the details. Spend a few hours going through a language reference just browsing the huge number of functions that are available. If you know certain tasks or manipulations can be done you can always look up the details of how when you need them.
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