One of the drivers on its way out between 2.6.39 and 2.6.41 is the Riscom/8 driver. I owned two of these cards at one point (you know, back when I had a use for 8 RS-232 ports on my machine, and back when my PC still had ISA slots in it) - I bought them at a flea market (Hoss Traders, yeah!) - two cards, one cable set - which meant that I could only actually use one of the cards. The cable set was this massive thing - a giant multi-pin connector occupying the whole back end of the card which connected to 8 DB-25 connectors. Later on I found a source for the connector and made my own cable with DB-9 ends to save some space.
I don't remember what I used all of the serial lines for - a couple dumb terminals, probably, and a modem, Palm Pilot cradle, can't remember what else.
Anyway, the first one died as a result of a lightning strike (through the phone line, presumably. My old modem also died that day) - impressive release of magic smoke when I turned the machine back on. I used the second card for a while - don't remember what I did with it. Probably got rid of it along with one of those old computers...
So, farewell, Riscom/8 driver. You were good to me. XD
There's little data you can create on a 3DS using built-in software and purchasable games.
Ever seen Korg DS-10?
(Personally, I don't believe Nintendo is gonna take people's photos and use 'em in ads or whatever. The clause is probably more to cover their ass, if they happen to feature something in an ad that someone claims they themselves created. Nintendo can point to the clause and say "suck it, bitch!" But regardless of intent I think terms like that are unreasonable...)
But whoever thinks it is great to just leak all this hard won intel... should be keel hauled.
What valuable intel do you think was leaked? The fact that they raided Bin Laden's compound and killed him is already widely known. Do you think people wouldn't figure out that there may have been some sensitive information there, too?
You need to watch "Four Lions," it pretty much proves what you're saying.
Oh, I like that one... Picard, all grizzled and worn out, standing defiantly, screaming "THERE ARE... FOUR LIONS!" - never suspecting that a fifth lion actually was being occasionally brought in just to mess with his head.
What we need is TNG where we get to vote who gets kicked out of the airlock every week. Adios, Wesley...
You know, you may find Wesley annoying but is a TV show where all plot developments are determined by majority rule really what you want? That's a quick route straight to lowest-common-denominator crap. The ultimate in low-risk storytelling.
The thing to remember is that the viewers, for the most part, aren't particularly good at telling stories. Not that the people behind TNG, etc. were always aces at this either, but for good TV you generally need good leadership establishing direction of the show.
I feel bad for it, but I can't help but wish—just a little bit—that we'll get Godzilla out of this.
You didn't know? The whole earthquake and nuclear reactor incident is just a cover story for Gojira's fight with Destroyah and his subsequent meltdown...
Tell me a situation where "hate" is a rational and appropriate way to respond.
If someone has made themselves a worthy target of hatred, then it is right to hate them.
You say all those other terms aren't "hate" - I say they're merely window-dressing, a veneer of misguided faux-civility over one's true feelings. Hence, I maintain my argument that everybody hates something or someone, therefore we are all "haters" and the term is meaningless.
It is possible to have both emotion and intellect, but the more you have of one, the less you will have of the other.... The brain cannot handle hate and thinking at the same time.
Which kind of brings us back to the idea of this as basically a more complicated equivalent of a gas tax...
If you think that this will replace the current gas tax, forget that. This will be in addition to it. Obama doesn't believe that you are paying your fair share of taxes, so he needs to get additional ways of increasing his fair share. He needs more of your and your great-great-grandchildrens income to pay off the Chinese loans he made in his first quarter, plus more for the additional loans after that.
Yeah! And... wait, remind me again how the whole financial crisis that led to this is Obama's fault? He wasn't in office yet but I know there must be an explanation.
I think I was quite adequately cynical of the proposed mileage tax when I said I thought it was only being done not as a gas tax increase in order to avoid the backlash that comes with a gas tax. In other words, taxing the same thing as a gas tax increase in roughly the same way (just mileage instead of gallons), but just spinning it differently for better public reaction.
Because mass of the vehicle has a hell of a lot to do with how much damage they do. Mass per axle needs to be taken into account as well as total distance driven.
Which kind of brings us back to the idea of this as basically a more complicated equivalent of a gas tax...
I mean, heavier vehicles will tend to have poorer fuel economy, and obviously if you drive farther you use more gas. If you accept also that it's desirable to encourage people to drive more efficient vehicles when possible, then it really seems like a gas tax is the way to go.
But it's unpopular to do anything that raises the price of gasoline. I suspect that may be why they're looking at alternatives. Tax basically the same thing, but measure it differently so people won't curse you every time they go to a gas station.
It does. To hate requires that you sacrifice all intellect for emotion.
Since when?
I mean, on the planet Vulcan, there's this dichotomy: You can either devote yourself to the discipline of logic and shut out all emotion, or be open to your emotions, and turn into a kind of wild animal. Here on Earth we have a slightly more balanced perspective. One can rationally conclude that the appropriate way to respond to something is to hate it. That does not mean that one has lost the ability to reconsider that decision.
We all hate something. We are all "haters" in that sense. Hence the term is meaningless.
Get this, we are celebrating the *death* of a human being. I don't care how much he deserved to die (I don't believe in retribution anyway), it doesn't matter that I think it was necessary for him to die (I do believe in self-defense: he would have continued to plan, advise, and facilitate attacks against more people) -- a human being has died.
This is the ultimate irreversible act, and is never a good thing. Let's leave celebrating death to the terrorists.
I hear ya - but to say it's never a good thing? I don't know about that. Seems too clear-cut for reality. Don't you suppose it's possible for someone to do enough bad things in their lifetime that it'd be right for people to celebrate his death?
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Nah.
Aw, if you'd just signed up a little later, you'd have "6510", the model number of the Commodore 64's CPU!
Little Bobby Tables' mom strikes again.
I guess those kids at school actually were right, when they said his mom was at the center of the biggest public penetration test ever performed.
So if you converted an episode of Dharma and Greg to Super 8, it would become a movie if you played it on this device?
Maybe not, but it'd no longer be "video".
One of the drivers on its way out between 2.6.39 and 2.6.41 is the Riscom/8 driver. I owned two of these cards at one point (you know, back when I had a use for 8 RS-232 ports on my machine, and back when my PC still had ISA slots in it) - I bought them at a flea market (Hoss Traders, yeah!) - two cards, one cable set - which meant that I could only actually use one of the cards. The cable set was this massive thing - a giant multi-pin connector occupying the whole back end of the card which connected to 8 DB-25 connectors. Later on I found a source for the connector and made my own cable with DB-9 ends to save some space.
I don't remember what I used all of the serial lines for - a couple dumb terminals, probably, and a modem, Palm Pilot cradle, can't remember what else.
Anyway, the first one died as a result of a lightning strike (through the phone line, presumably. My old modem also died that day) - impressive release of magic smoke when I turned the machine back on. I used the second card for a while - don't remember what I did with it. Probably got rid of it along with one of those old computers...
So, farewell, Riscom/8 driver. You were good to me. XD
There's little data you can create on a 3DS using built-in software and purchasable games.
Ever seen Korg DS-10?
(Personally, I don't believe Nintendo is gonna take people's photos and use 'em in ads or whatever. The clause is probably more to cover their ass, if they happen to feature something in an ad that someone claims they themselves created. Nintendo can point to the clause and say "suck it, bitch!" But regardless of intent I think terms like that are unreasonable...)
The 3DS is region locked. First handheld ever to be so
DSi was region-locked, too.
There is easy way to test this clause. Take a picture of your balls in 3D and see if it turns up in any Nintendo promotional material.
Soon as I get 'em out of your mom's mouth I'll give it a try.
Warsaw was raw. Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Yeah, it's interesting.
But whoever thinks it is great to just leak all this hard won intel ... should be keel hauled.
What valuable intel do you think was leaked? The fact that they raided Bin Laden's compound and killed him is already widely known. Do you think people wouldn't figure out that there may have been some sensitive information there, too?
Sneakernets are actually pretty cool, never under estimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives.
Do trucks wear sneakers?
Yes, I am convinced all spammers are terrorists.
Nevermind, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. :)
Gasp! You're one of _them_.
what's the number for the FBI?
You don't have to dial. Just pick up a phone and say "I know you're listening, I have to tell you something!" Then say what you have to say.
You need to watch "Four Lions," it pretty much proves what you're saying.
Oh, I like that one... Picard, all grizzled and worn out, standing defiantly, screaming "THERE ARE ... FOUR LIONS!" - never suspecting that a fifth lion actually was being occasionally brought in just to mess with his head.
What we need is TNG where we get to vote who gets kicked out of the airlock every week. Adios, Wesley...
You know, you may find Wesley annoying but is a TV show where all plot developments are determined by majority rule really what you want? That's a quick route straight to lowest-common-denominator crap. The ultimate in low-risk storytelling.
The thing to remember is that the viewers, for the most part, aren't particularly good at telling stories. Not that the people behind TNG, etc. were always aces at this either, but for good TV you generally need good leadership establishing direction of the show.
If you can do The Bart, you're bad like Michael Jackson.
ah well shit, it sounds dangerous. we all need to give up and go back to living like the amish.
Even the Amish don't do that...
I feel bad for it, but I can't help but wish—just a little bit—that we'll get Godzilla out of this.
You didn't know? The whole earthquake and nuclear reactor incident is just a cover story for Gojira's fight with Destroyah and his subsequent meltdown...
That's "Kaneda" with a "d"...
Tell me a situation where "hate" is a rational and appropriate way to respond.
If someone has made themselves a worthy target of hatred, then it is right to hate them.
You say all those other terms aren't "hate" - I say they're merely window-dressing, a veneer of misguided faux-civility over one's true feelings. Hence, I maintain my argument that everybody hates something or someone, therefore we are all "haters" and the term is meaningless.
It is possible to have both emotion and intellect, but the more you have of one, the less you will have of the other. ...
The brain cannot handle hate and thinking at the same time.
Since when?
It was your mom, actually, on both counts. But she did ask to be called Halle Berry.
Which kind of brings us back to the idea of this as basically a more complicated equivalent of a gas tax...
If you think that this will replace the current gas tax, forget that. This will be in addition to it. Obama doesn't believe that you are paying your fair share of taxes, so he needs to get additional ways of increasing his fair share. He needs more of your and your great-great-grandchildrens income to pay off the Chinese loans he made in his first quarter, plus more for the additional loans after that.
Yeah! And... wait, remind me again how the whole financial crisis that led to this is Obama's fault? He wasn't in office yet but I know there must be an explanation.
I think I was quite adequately cynical of the proposed mileage tax when I said I thought it was only being done not as a gas tax increase in order to avoid the backlash that comes with a gas tax. In other words, taxing the same thing as a gas tax increase in roughly the same way (just mileage instead of gallons), but just spinning it differently for better public reaction.
Because mass of the vehicle has a hell of a lot to do with how much damage they do. Mass per axle needs to be taken into account as well as total distance driven.
Which kind of brings us back to the idea of this as basically a more complicated equivalent of a gas tax...
I mean, heavier vehicles will tend to have poorer fuel economy, and obviously if you drive farther you use more gas. If you accept also that it's desirable to encourage people to drive more efficient vehicles when possible, then it really seems like a gas tax is the way to go.
But it's unpopular to do anything that raises the price of gasoline. I suspect that may be why they're looking at alternatives. Tax basically the same thing, but measure it differently so people won't curse you every time they go to a gas station.
It does. To hate requires that you sacrifice all intellect for emotion.
Since when?
I mean, on the planet Vulcan, there's this dichotomy: You can either devote yourself to the discipline of logic and shut out all emotion, or be open to your emotions, and turn into a kind of wild animal. Here on Earth we have a slightly more balanced perspective. One can rationally conclude that the appropriate way to respond to something is to hate it. That does not mean that one has lost the ability to reconsider that decision.
We all hate something. We are all "haters" in that sense. Hence the term is meaningless.
I agree he was a hater.
You say that as if it actually means something.
Get this, we are celebrating the *death* of a human being. I don't care how much he deserved to die (I don't believe in retribution anyway), it doesn't matter that I think it was necessary for him to die (I do believe in self-defense: he would have continued to plan, advise, and facilitate attacks against more people) -- a human being has died.
This is the ultimate irreversible act, and is never a good thing. Let's leave celebrating death to the terrorists.
I hear ya - but to say it's never a good thing? I don't know about that. Seems too clear-cut for reality. Don't you suppose it's possible for someone to do enough bad things in their lifetime that it'd be right for people to celebrate his death?
yeah but batman hasn't killed the joker yet
Well, he paralyzed the Joker, and then the Joker killed himself by twisting his broken neck.