> my grandchildren, his grandchildren you fail at English. actually, I teach English.
The English language has no central authority to decide what is and is not correct, all it takes is for me to tell enough students one thing, and it will catch on and become part of the language! HA!
so, now can I make the claim that I can not on good conscience rent or purchase a movie due to pollution?
My deep rooted concerns for our environment, the glaciers, the ozone layer, my grandchildren, his grandchildren, and even your grandchildren prevent me from paying for movies, since it will add more worthless junk to our overflowing landfills.
Downloading movies produces significantly less waste; therefor, pirating all my media is the only way any responsible, eco-friendly person can be entertained, and still be able to sleep at night.
But you might start by getting involved. Be your own news source, instead of settling for second-hand sensationalism. great idea! how can we trust these lousy reporters, 'burn the lot of them' I say.
Lets have everyone, all 300 million of you Americans go and pack up all your bags, move to China, walk up to a chinese government official, and ask them "what's going on?"
thats a brilliant idea! you should go and get right on that.
or, for the sake of efficiency, we can have a small number of people go into an area and report on things for the rest of us! yea! We could even give those people special training! Maybe they could even make a career out of going to these far away places on our behalf and reporting on events, situations and politics! what a brilliant idea!
i have never seen that as the default set up, but you can easily have windows 3.1 load automatically on startup
you can make any program load automatically, i wrote a simple menu progam (in BASIC of course!) that defaulted to loading Windows in 5 seconds, unless i hit '1' for DOS, '2' for wolfenstein 3D, '3' for EGAtrek, or '4' for super mario
i havent used DOS in about 8 years, so I may have forgotten some stuff, but here is what i think you do:
open up autoexe.bat, and add this very end:
CLS ECHO theheadlessrabbit is effing awesome win
while windows 95 was freaken terrible, it did introduce the windows interface that is still in use today (start button, taskbar, desktop) the interface in vista might be shinier, but the functionality is still about the same.
While everything up to 3.11 was just a fancy shell for DOS, windows 95 was (almost) a real OS. (mainly because you didn't have to type 'win' in a DOS prompt after start-up, it loaded on its own, like magic)
While 2000 and XP were huge steps forward, from a general users perspective, they weren't much different than 95. the start menu is in the same place, the taskbar is the same. the clock and system fonts are all the same.
as far as visuals and GUI design are concerned, win95 was a highpoint, and they haven't really moved beyond that. as far as stability is concerend, windows 2000 was the highpoint. when one program crashed, the rest of my system didn't crash with it! amazing!
Why would ANYBODY go buy a random PC and then just expect Linux to work on it? WTF? You find out what works and then buy the PC, not the other way around! and this is exactly why 1997 through to 2008 have all failed to become the year of Linux on the desktop.
Otherwise, one bad moderator, or one good poster can make a big difference, hiding the effects of censorship. to help you prove your point, (which is quite insightful) I have modded you '+1 overrated'
my one bad moderation will now throw all of slashdot entirely out of whack!
haha!
I thought my plan was so brilliant, I just had to post about my actions for everyone to see.
South Korea also has national ID cards and manditory conscription for males. While the press here isn't controlled by the state, much of it is very sesnationalized and biased, much like fox news.
by your logic, would South Korea's democracy be a sham, or does a country need to break all of your listed rules?
Im not trying to be snarky or rude here, I am genuinely interested in what level of control it takes before you consider a democracy to be a sham.
you are using Singapore, the country where they can fine you for not flushing a toilet in a public restroom, where possession of marijuana is punishable by death as an argument FOR people being able to live like we do in the Western world?
But the rational part of my brain tells me that manned space exploration is of little value, scientifically. We can send probes and rovers to all kids of places that humans can't really get to. it also helps that with robots, there is no moral dilemma when you send them on a one way trip.
I don't understand why there are only a small number of probes heading into space, I would love to see experiments with different kinds of propulsion, send probes out with ion drives, solar sales, try out the eventually catch up to, and pass voyager.
how many moons does Saturn have? we should have probes orbiting each of them by now.
of course, data from probes don't inspire children as much as watching grainy footage of people stepping onto extraterrestrial soil, which is why we need to have a manned space program.
but manned space flight is pitiful.
the ISS is a joke. we should have a huge, rotating '2001 a space odyssey' style station up there by now.
last time i checked, the replacement for the shuttle is a step back to the Apollo style capsule.
make space a place people want to go to, and put a system in place where the best and brightest, (rather than the richest) get to go.
In all likelihood, he and a bunch of guys pass around copies of all the public nookie they observe. I'm sure there's a whole underground trade in CCTV porn a few years ago, for 4 summers, I worked as a janitor in a local high school to pay my way through college.
there were CCTV porn mix tapes.
the camera could zoom past a parking lot, past a full sized soccer field, and zoom right up on someones bedroom window, revealing everything inside the bedroom. we had footage of people in their homes, people doing it in cars, people doing it in the forest by the school, etc.
this school had no dedicated security staff that had any sort of obligation to keep the footage secure. the tapes were changed by the janitors.
finding this tape was the experience that awakened me to the potential abuses of surveillance.
So what has audience response been in other countries? in south korea, a speed racer preview was shown before Iron Man, based on what i have seen around me, a south korean audience should be very used to obnoxious colour schemes, and they responded with an eww.. reaction at first, which faded to one of indifference after 5 seconds.
If the RIAA's behavior is so offensive, then what exactly will anyone do about it? You'll keep buying their movies I have never bought a movie from the RIAA.
I have a feeling a lot of other people haven't bought movies from them, either...
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I think someone should inform Mr. Thompson the definition of the word 'hubris'
you fail at English. actually, I teach English.
The English language has no central authority to decide what is and is not correct, all it takes is for me to tell enough students one thing, and it will catch on and become part of the language!
HA!
so, now can I make the claim that I can not on good conscience rent or purchase a movie due to pollution?
My deep rooted concerns for our environment, the glaciers, the ozone layer, my grandchildren, his grandchildren, and even your grandchildren prevent me from paying for movies, since it will add more worthless junk to our overflowing landfills.
Downloading movies produces significantly less waste; therefor, pirating all my media is the only way any responsible, eco-friendly person can be entertained, and still be able to sleep at night.
does that sound good to everyone else?
yar....why ye be posting as AC?
you should be proud to attach your name to a post declaring your belief that the great pasta in the sky created all life
RAmen
how can we trust these lousy reporters, 'burn the lot of them' I say.
Lets have everyone, all 300 million of you Americans go and pack up all your bags, move to China, walk up to a chinese government official, and ask them "what's going on?"
thats a brilliant idea! you should go and get right on that.
or, for the sake of efficiency, we can have a small number of people go into an area and report on things for the rest of us!
yea!
We could even give those people special training!
Maybe they could even make a career out of going to these far away places on our behalf and reporting on events, situations and politics! what a brilliant idea!
I agree completely!
you can make any program load automatically, i wrote a simple menu progam (in BASIC of course!) that defaulted to loading Windows in 5 seconds, unless i hit '1' for DOS, '2' for wolfenstein 3D, '3' for EGAtrek, or '4' for super mario
i havent used DOS in about 8 years, so I may have forgotten some stuff, but here is what i think you do:
open up autoexe.bat, and add this very end: CLS
ECHO theheadlessrabbit is effing awesome
win
while windows 95 was freaken terrible, it did introduce the windows interface that is still in use today (start button, taskbar, desktop) the interface in vista might be shinier, but the functionality is still about the same.
While everything up to 3.11 was just a fancy shell for DOS, windows 95 was (almost) a real OS. (mainly because you didn't have to type 'win' in a DOS prompt after start-up, it loaded on its own, like magic)
While 2000 and XP were huge steps forward, from a general users perspective, they weren't much different than 95. the start menu is in the same place, the taskbar is the same. the clock and system fonts are all the same.
as far as visuals and GUI design are concerned, win95 was a highpoint, and they haven't really moved beyond that.
as far as stability is concerend, windows 2000 was the highpoint. when one program crashed, the rest of my system didn't crash with it! amazing!
I am really happy about this.
as a linux user, (i befriended the penguin after one day of vista) watching MS drop the ball a second time is good news.
i can feel it.....
2010 will be the year of linux on the desktop.
(at least for some people it will be, just like how 2007 was the year of linux on MY desktop)
the solution to malware is simple.
set up a dual boot system, use linux to browse for porn, and use windows for playing games.
you've eliminated all the risks, and you get to use your computer for the only two things its good for: porn and gaming.
i noticed this back in my high school law class.
whenever a new bill is introduced, it actually does the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the name implies.
eg. the 'Medical Privacy Act' is actually a list of people who are granted access to your health records.
what the hell?
why is honesty from lawmakers and politicians always too much to ask for?
so, it will generate $20,000 for the landowner.
i wonder what the landowner will have to pay for the insurance on each turbine.
my guess would be $21,000.
i don't think anyone really 'chooses' to upgrade windows.
your old computer dies, you get a new one, and you are stuck with whatever version of windows is pre-installed.
my one bad moderation will now throw all of slashdot entirely out of whack!
haha!
I thought my plan was so brilliant, I just had to post about my actions for everyone to see.
but does it want to be free?
so black holes are the RIAA of the universe?
it all makes so much sense now!
South Korea also has national ID cards and manditory conscription for males.
While the press here isn't controlled by the state, much of it is very sesnationalized and biased, much like fox news.
by your logic, would South Korea's democracy be a sham, or does a country need to break all of your listed rules?
Im not trying to be snarky or rude here, I am genuinely interested in what level of control it takes before you consider a democracy to be a sham.
sorry, i accidently modded you off topic, in stead of interesting. im posting this to undo my mistake.
Singapore?
you are using Singapore, the country where they can fine you for not flushing a toilet in a public restroom, where possession of marijuana is punishable by death as an argument FOR people being able to live like we do in the Western world?
as a nerd, space exploration really excites me.
But the rational part of my brain tells me that manned space exploration is of little value, scientifically. We can send probes and rovers to all kids of places that humans can't really get to. it also helps that with robots, there is no moral dilemma when you send them on a one way trip.
I don't understand why there are only a small number of probes heading into space, I would love to see experiments with different kinds of propulsion, send probes out with ion drives, solar sales, try out the eventually catch up to, and pass voyager.
how many moons does Saturn have? we should have probes orbiting each of them by now.
of course, data from probes don't inspire children as much as watching grainy footage of people stepping onto extraterrestrial soil, which is why we need to have a manned space program.
but manned space flight is pitiful.
the ISS is a joke. we should have a huge, rotating '2001 a space odyssey' style station up there by now.
last time i checked, the replacement for the shuttle is a step back to the Apollo style capsule.
make space a place people want to go to, and put a system in place where the best and brightest, (rather than the richest) get to go.
there were CCTV porn mix tapes.
the camera could zoom past a parking lot, past a full sized soccer field, and zoom right up on someones bedroom window, revealing everything inside the bedroom. we had footage of people in their homes, people doing it in cars, people doing it in the forest by the school, etc.
this school had no dedicated security staff that had any sort of obligation to keep the footage secure. the tapes were changed by the janitors.
finding this tape was the experience that awakened me to the potential abuses of surveillance.
I have a feeling a lot of other people haven't bought movies from them, either...