Exactly, thank you! I am apparently one of the few newer (recently graduated) geeks who can handle a soldering iron (since I was like 12 years old)...but most consumers won't be able to. This just adds to my contempt for these businesses, as they force you to depend on them for something you could easily do yourself if they'd designed it in such a manner that it was "user friendly" on maintenance. I understand it's less profitable for a business NOT to exploit me in this manner, but that's not in my interest as the consumer. I will fix my own damn equipment, thank you very much.
I replaced the screen in my iPaq a few months ago (finally) because I'd crunched it in the door...and other than needing a special screw driver, it wasn't incredibly difficult to do...no soldering, just very precise and miniature connectors to hook up. Step by step...any dummy who can read the "GO TO THIS WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTIONS" note that came w/ my parts could do it.
Yeah, except we are talking about non-PC hardware, but since you mentioned it, I'm less concerned with my data transferring (cuz all the stuff I care about it in a universal format (all my drum sample WAV files)) and more concerned with my applications transferring (games, music synth / sequencer programs, etc).
But in the case of *hardware*...I am with you. Hence me bitching about not making the battery accessible.
Hey now, some of us are cheap-asses and/or Soviet in our hardware buying habits (you are only to be gettink one, so make sure it is workink good, yes?). Changing hardware is like moving...it's a pain in the ass. If my equipment works, other than the battery, why should I change? Planned obsolescence sucks, and that's exactly what this is, regardless of how often the "average consumer" upgrades.
No kidding...I am completely responsible with my guns, games, books, porn and everything else, except maybe my finances, which all go towards the aforementioned, in that order ironically enough. Oh, and alcohol. And music. But other than those two things, you nailed it!
It's the difference between being an artist and being a businessman. If people create music primarily for the love of music or to make a buck.
I used to wonder why shitty local bands got more shows than my (less shitty) local band of the same genre. The answer: I am too busy writing more music instead of focusing on promotion and booking and such. That being said, we've got a small but loyal fanbase...and admittedly, industrial isn't that popular in my area. Not to say that there aren't some really good bands that can pull this off, but I've seen shitty ones do it too, and popularity != skill or talent, neither in performance nor songwriting.
And this in no way hinders us independent (unsigned or otherwise) artists from belting out our cattle mutilating crack smoking ho slappin cap popping satanic communist homosexual porn lyrics. Nice one, right wing censorship goons! No fucking way will you dial my music back to 1950 and the malt shop bullshit*. Well, besides the fact that I don't live in the UK.
*In no way to I mean to disparage good 50's music, like Little Richard or Chuck Berry or Johnny Cash, nor their progeny in modern psychobilly. Hell, Elvis is practically porn music as far as some conservatives are concerned!
While syntactically correct in other contexts, it is not appropriate in this one. Punctuation should only appear inside quotation marks when quoting a speaking person, whose sentence (with terminators like commas and periods) is the subject of quotation. Reference to a name or song title or other distinct entity (as opposed to a statement by that entity) does not include quotation, unless the punctuation mark is part of it (such as "P.R.E.S.S." by Atari Teenage Riot).
So basically, spell check might allow it, but we all know THAT isn't perfect, as it is not aware of semantics or context...it's probably just matching a regex somewhere.
How about "South Korea taxes domestic sales involving its official currency"? That's pretty generic (yet accurate).
I don't see how it's any different from taxing Ebay sales...I'm not exactly fond of the idea, but it's the same. If you buy something in USD, I'd expect that a USD tax could be applied to it, assuming it's bought within US jurisdiction. Same goes for Korea. I agree that the topic title is inflammatory...but if cash money is exchanging hands (not just Lindens or Gold Pieces or credits), the government will certainly want a share.
Reminds me of a certain old Sierra title..."Alien Legacy". Squiddo aliens living in the largest of the gas giants who get pissed at you for siphoning their gas for energy on your capital ship and make heads asplode.
Hence why al-Qaeda "hates us for our freedom" and not "for meddling in their affairs and selling weapons to various parties in middle eastern conflicts (sometimes both sides) and arrogantly asserting global hegemony" (as far as the public knows). Terrorism is the new Communism...Brezh-who? Gorbachev...isn't that a movie about a talking pig or a mathematician or something?
Maybe that's not 100% accurate, but it's close enough, and that is the perception of misguided "religious activists" like Bin Laden...'terrorism is the poor man's war...war is the rich man's terrorism.'
Someone could also just route through somewhere else OR crack someone else's password (there are surely still default passwords you could guess even without brute force or other cracking methods, considering that not everyone on campus is even remotely computer literate (I was the de facto tech support guy for my floor in the dorms...I don't know how many times the solution was plugging something in)). If it is DHCP, using someone else's ID would quite easily throw off the trail. Couple that with a configurable MAC address and you've got no way to trace people (I'm sure they could track which interface you're on, but that only goes so far as to which router you're hooked up to...). There are a lot of factors.
Of course, this is in line with my philosophy for WiFi: if you know how to sniff packets and bypass my MAC filtering, you're more than the average punk (probably...I'm not sure what kind of network hacks are available for the SK's), so if you're war driving, you can use my connection for a short while...
I tend to agree, though...the cartesian -10,-10 has never been tried except maybe by Roddenberry. And using the two dimensional system can also show the vast differences between the Republican candidates for president this go around...they're all "right wing / conservative" in traditional 1-dimensional measures, but they aren't even close in two dimensions (Tancredo being probably 6,10 (fascist) and Ron Paul being 10,-7 (libertarian) and Romney about 9,4 (douchebag)).
Deliberately lying does not constitute ineptitude, although by no means does this mean I think of them as "ept". Any conspiracy that does not factor in government incompetence (especially in this administration) cannot be true.
Surely you agree that Gonzales saying "I do not recall" is 100% manure?
In any event, as your quotee said, it has been advantageous for some in the Bush admin to spread erroneous information or to run with information that is patently false, because by the time it is discredited, its purpose has been effected.
Besides, if they really were working in good faith, why would they constantly maintain a veil of secrecy around *everything*?
They are capable, but sloppy. Undisciplined. Drunk with power. They are without restraint.
Well, considering it's probably cheaper than a brain interface, sounds like a pretty good way to cut down RSI. Now to convince my boss that the IT department all need one. I tried the trigger mice, but they are too slow to pick up and use when you're mostly coding and only need to occasionally mouse. If you're gonna mouse for awhile, those work pretty well, although they aren't quite precise enough for gaming (or rather, I haven't become adept at using them for that purpose).
I figured it works both ways...I could've sworn I had read that. IE, the difference between a fortress and a prison is which side the locks are on...that which keeps radiation in should also keep radiation out. Correct me if I'm wrong?
If you built a Faraday cage around your fridge, that might work. IANA physicist, so I'd ask one before spending a boat load on copper mesh. But THEY use it to protect radio telescopes from EM interference from their computers...
You'd just need to make sure the mesh holes are super tiny, because, as you know, cosmic radiation has an EXTREMELY short wavelength. Then again, if you ground the fridge, it might work on its own...just make sure you've got some kind of conductive sheath over the gaskets on the doors that is electrically connected to the fridge.
It isn't hypocrisy. Kids can't buy porn (but like guns, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, they can still get it). I'm a little annoyed with the console companies (I'm mostly a PC gamer / ye olde school console gamer (Colecovision, NES), and a little modern console). Given the licensing model (another topic to debate), the console manufacturers have the privilege of controlling the content, and I think self policing (US) is far better than government censorship (as in the UK). I am still going to call them pansies for not releasing it, but it's a far cry from fascism. ESRB is a private group that rates things...and even if it's industry practice not to release AO games, it's still not LAW that bans them (at least in some relatively free countries).
It's a parent's responsibility to censor their kids (if their so crass as to do that). If a title is just completely absurd in its level of gratuitous violence (like Postal 2 if it weren't so damn funny), it will tank. Manhunt 2 sounds like that title from what I've heard. Bad games kill themselves, no need to help 'em when a phenomenal game that might get an AO rating could be out there (like if Fallout 3 gets a little more detailed on New Reno life than its predecessors...while retaining what made the series great). And what's to stop some asshat at ESRB from rating something like Resident Evil as AO?
WHAT IF they finish DNF (unlikely) and it just gets AO (not unlikely)?!?!?!?! THAT would piss me off!!!!
They are great in video games, but nukes are unethical as hell. Despite their enmity, I'd hope that the Israelis realize that a LOT of people in Iran "hate the fucking Ayatollah" (both of the Iranian gentlemen I met in Germany last year said this, one verbatim, one in a roundabout way). The desires and actions of governments and the people they govern are often quite different, as we are well aware in the United States.
Way to pwn the Micro$oft shill! Might I also mention, as cited by quanticle, that game developers are not going to make Vista exclusive games if the vast majority of the market is running XP or other platforms when DX9 will sufficiently suit their needs. And no DRM!!!
Maybe their next OS will be XP Edition 2.0...if it's all cyclic, then I hope you're right with your dubbing of Vista. I went from 98 to XP (finally) in 2002...I was fine sitting out on the lousy interim OS's from MS, and I can do it again.
The important part, EXACTLY as with cartridge guns, is that these cameras and their feeds are readily available to and privately controlled by John Q. Public and not by The Man (as is the case in Britain, and as mentioned above, provides only evidence to convict civilians, not to convict police of misconduct).
I read something suggesting that the entire lives of people born in the next 20 years will be recorded in some fashion or another, be it personally in a bloggish sense, or by a surveillance culture like the UK. Such is the information age.
And before you ask how I afforded a motorcycle: it was $900 bucks, which I scrimped and saved during university! Quite a feat, if I may say so. It's older than my car and gets a little over double the fuel economy. Although oddly enough, my car has been getting about 30-50 miles more per tank in the last year...either my driving habits have changed or the fuel is different.
Someone needs to go Fight Club on their ass...I heard about this before and I knew that big oil would not let anything of the sort into the country until the last drop of oil is gone.
I drive a land yacht (12-15 mpg, woohoo!), and to that British fellow: I inherited my car and I could not afford a new one for the 8 years I have driven it (the first half of which gas was not criminally expensive). I'm saving up for a brand new car (which should, incidentally, be around the 2 year anniversary of graduating from college), which I don't expect to be much more fuel efficient (most likely a Dodge with a beefy engine). I am also large (6'5") and I don't fit into the compacts...I barely fit into a mid-size sedan...and I need the high torque of a big motor to haul my fat ass around. Even if I were in top-shape, I'd still be to heavy for a little four banger to perform adequately...my motorcycle does fine on 1100cc, but it's only 700 lbs...and a presently inoperative:'(
But why would surface features visibly cross the terminator if it weren't rotating ever so slightly? If it were simply motion of the spacecraft, the terminator would move as well...it didn't.
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Exactly, thank you! I am apparently one of the few newer (recently graduated) geeks who can handle a soldering iron (since I was like 12 years old)...but most consumers won't be able to. This just adds to my contempt for these businesses, as they force you to depend on them for something you could easily do yourself if they'd designed it in such a manner that it was "user friendly" on maintenance. I understand it's less profitable for a business NOT to exploit me in this manner, but that's not in my interest as the consumer. I will fix my own damn equipment, thank you very much.
I replaced the screen in my iPaq a few months ago (finally) because I'd crunched it in the door...and other than needing a special screw driver, it wasn't incredibly difficult to do...no soldering, just very precise and miniature connectors to hook up. Step by step...any dummy who can read the "GO TO THIS WEBSITE FOR INSTRUCTIONS" note that came w/ my parts could do it.
Yeah, except we are talking about non-PC hardware, but since you mentioned it, I'm less concerned with my data transferring (cuz all the stuff I care about it in a universal format (all my drum sample WAV files)) and more concerned with my applications transferring (games, music synth / sequencer programs, etc).
But in the case of *hardware*...I am with you. Hence me bitching about not making the battery accessible.
Hey now, some of us are cheap-asses and/or Soviet in our hardware buying habits (you are only to be gettink one, so make sure it is workink good, yes?). Changing hardware is like moving...it's a pain in the ass. If my equipment works, other than the battery, why should I change? Planned obsolescence sucks, and that's exactly what this is, regardless of how often the "average consumer" upgrades.
No kidding...I am completely responsible with my guns, games, books, porn and everything else, except maybe my finances, which all go towards the aforementioned, in that order ironically enough. Oh, and alcohol. And music. But other than those two things, you nailed it!
It's the difference between being an artist and being a businessman. If people create music primarily for the love of music or to make a buck.
I used to wonder why shitty local bands got more shows than my (less shitty) local band of the same genre. The answer: I am too busy writing more music instead of focusing on promotion and booking and such. That being said, we've got a small but loyal fanbase...and admittedly, industrial isn't that popular in my area. Not to say that there aren't some really good bands that can pull this off, but I've seen shitty ones do it too, and popularity != skill or talent, neither in performance nor songwriting.
Or they could be like Kompressor...
And this in no way hinders us independent (unsigned or otherwise) artists from belting out our cattle mutilating crack smoking ho slappin cap popping satanic communist homosexual porn lyrics. Nice one, right wing censorship goons! No fucking way will you dial my music back to 1950 and the malt shop bullshit*. Well, besides the fact that I don't live in the UK.
*In no way to I mean to disparage good 50's music, like Little Richard or Chuck Berry or Johnny Cash, nor their progeny in modern psychobilly. Hell, Elvis is practically porn music as far as some conservatives are concerned!
While syntactically correct in other contexts, it is not appropriate in this one. Punctuation should only appear inside quotation marks when quoting a speaking person, whose sentence (with terminators like commas and periods) is the subject of quotation. Reference to a name or song title or other distinct entity (as opposed to a statement by that entity) does not include quotation, unless the punctuation mark is part of it (such as "P.R.E.S.S." by Atari Teenage Riot).
So basically, spell check might allow it, but we all know THAT isn't perfect, as it is not aware of semantics or context...it's probably just matching a regex somewhere.
How about "South Korea taxes domestic sales involving its official currency"? That's pretty generic (yet accurate).
I don't see how it's any different from taxing Ebay sales...I'm not exactly fond of the idea, but it's the same. If you buy something in USD, I'd expect that a USD tax could be applied to it, assuming it's bought within US jurisdiction. Same goes for Korea. I agree that the topic title is inflammatory...but if cash money is exchanging hands (not just Lindens or Gold Pieces or credits), the government will certainly want a share.
Reminds me of a certain old Sierra title..."Alien Legacy". Squiddo aliens living in the largest of the gas giants who get pissed at you for siphoning their gas for energy on your capital ship and make heads asplode.
Hence why al-Qaeda "hates us for our freedom" and not "for meddling in their affairs and selling weapons to various parties in middle eastern conflicts (sometimes both sides) and arrogantly asserting global hegemony" (as far as the public knows). Terrorism is the new Communism...Brezh-who? Gorbachev...isn't that a movie about a talking pig or a mathematician or something?
Maybe that's not 100% accurate, but it's close enough, and that is the perception of misguided "religious activists" like Bin Laden...'terrorism is the poor man's war...war is the rich man's terrorism.'
Someone could also just route through somewhere else OR crack someone else's password (there are surely still default passwords you could guess even without brute force or other cracking methods, considering that not everyone on campus is even remotely computer literate (I was the de facto tech support guy for my floor in the dorms...I don't know how many times the solution was plugging something in)). If it is DHCP, using someone else's ID would quite easily throw off the trail. Couple that with a configurable MAC address and you've got no way to trace people (I'm sure they could track which interface you're on, but that only goes so far as to which router you're hooked up to...). There are a lot of factors.
Of course, this is in line with my philosophy for WiFi: if you know how to sniff packets and bypass my MAC filtering, you're more than the average punk (probably...I'm not sure what kind of network hacks are available for the SK's), so if you're war driving, you can use my connection for a short while...
Ah, the wonderful Political Compass
I tend to agree, though...the cartesian -10,-10 has never been tried except maybe by Roddenberry. And using the two dimensional system can also show the vast differences between the Republican candidates for president this go around...they're all "right wing / conservative" in traditional 1-dimensional measures, but they aren't even close in two dimensions (Tancredo being probably 6,10 (fascist) and Ron Paul being 10,-7 (libertarian) and Romney about 9,4 (douchebag)).
Deliberately lying does not constitute ineptitude, although by no means does this mean I think of them as "ept". Any conspiracy that does not factor in government incompetence (especially in this administration) cannot be true.
Surely you agree that Gonzales saying "I do not recall" is 100% manure?
In any event, as your quotee said, it has been advantageous for some in the Bush admin to spread erroneous information or to run with information that is patently false, because by the time it is discredited, its purpose has been effected.
Besides, if they really were working in good faith, why would they constantly maintain a veil of secrecy around *everything*?
They are capable, but sloppy. Undisciplined. Drunk with power. They are without restraint.
Well, considering it's probably cheaper than a brain interface, sounds like a pretty good way to cut down RSI. Now to convince my boss that the IT department all need one. I tried the trigger mice, but they are too slow to pick up and use when you're mostly coding and only need to occasionally mouse. If you're gonna mouse for awhile, those work pretty well, although they aren't quite precise enough for gaming (or rather, I haven't become adept at using them for that purpose).
I figured it works both ways...I could've sworn I had read that. IE, the difference between a fortress and a prison is which side the locks are on...that which keeps radiation in should also keep radiation out. Correct me if I'm wrong?
Considering how "well" Norinco copies of anything work, I'd be leery of that...
If you built a Faraday cage around your fridge, that might work. IANA physicist, so I'd ask one before spending a boat load on copper mesh. But THEY use it to protect radio telescopes from EM interference from their computers...
You'd just need to make sure the mesh holes are super tiny, because, as you know, cosmic radiation has an EXTREMELY short wavelength. Then again, if you ground the fridge, it might work on its own...just make sure you've got some kind of conductive sheath over the gaskets on the doors that is electrically connected to the fridge.
It isn't hypocrisy. Kids can't buy porn (but like guns, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, they can still get it). I'm a little annoyed with the console companies (I'm mostly a PC gamer / ye olde school console gamer (Colecovision, NES), and a little modern console). Given the licensing model (another topic to debate), the console manufacturers have the privilege of controlling the content, and I think self policing (US) is far better than government censorship (as in the UK). I am still going to call them pansies for not releasing it, but it's a far cry from fascism. ESRB is a private group that rates things...and even if it's industry practice not to release AO games, it's still not LAW that bans them (at least in some relatively free countries).
It's a parent's responsibility to censor their kids (if their so crass as to do that). If a title is just completely absurd in its level of gratuitous violence (like Postal 2 if it weren't so damn funny), it will tank. Manhunt 2 sounds like that title from what I've heard. Bad games kill themselves, no need to help 'em when a phenomenal game that might get an AO rating could be out there (like if Fallout 3 gets a little more detailed on New Reno life than its predecessors...while retaining what made the series great). And what's to stop some asshat at ESRB from rating something like Resident Evil as AO?
WHAT IF they finish DNF (unlikely) and it just gets AO (not unlikely)?!?!?!?! THAT would piss me off!!!!
They are great in video games, but nukes are unethical as hell. Despite their enmity, I'd hope that the Israelis realize that a LOT of people in Iran "hate the fucking Ayatollah" (both of the Iranian gentlemen I met in Germany last year said this, one verbatim, one in a roundabout way). The desires and actions of governments and the people they govern are often quite different, as we are well aware in the United States.
Gah indeed.
Nah, you're thinking of Starcraft II...
Way to pwn the Micro$oft shill! Might I also mention, as cited by quanticle, that game developers are not going to make Vista exclusive games if the vast majority of the market is running XP or other platforms when DX9 will sufficiently suit their needs. And no DRM!!!
Maybe their next OS will be XP Edition 2.0...if it's all cyclic, then I hope you're right with your dubbing of Vista. I went from 98 to XP (finally) in 2002...I was fine sitting out on the lousy interim OS's from MS, and I can do it again.
The important part, EXACTLY as with cartridge guns, is that these cameras and their feeds are readily available to and privately controlled by John Q. Public and not by The Man (as is the case in Britain, and as mentioned above, provides only evidence to convict civilians, not to convict police of misconduct).
I read something suggesting that the entire lives of people born in the next 20 years will be recorded in some fashion or another, be it personally in a bloggish sense, or by a surveillance culture like the UK. Such is the information age.
And before you ask how I afforded a motorcycle: it was $900 bucks, which I scrimped and saved during university! Quite a feat, if I may say so. It's older than my car and gets a little over double the fuel economy. Although oddly enough, my car has been getting about 30-50 miles more per tank in the last year...either my driving habits have changed or the fuel is different.
Someone needs to go Fight Club on their ass...I heard about this before and I knew that big oil would not let anything of the sort into the country until the last drop of oil is gone.
:'(
I drive a land yacht (12-15 mpg, woohoo!), and to that British fellow: I inherited my car and I could not afford a new one for the 8 years I have driven it (the first half of which gas was not criminally expensive). I'm saving up for a brand new car (which should, incidentally, be around the 2 year anniversary of graduating from college), which I don't expect to be much more fuel efficient (most likely a Dodge with a beefy engine). I am also large (6'5") and I don't fit into the compacts...I barely fit into a mid-size sedan...and I need the high torque of a big motor to haul my fat ass around. Even if I were in top-shape, I'd still be to heavy for a little four banger to perform adequately...my motorcycle does fine on 1100cc, but it's only 700 lbs...and a presently inoperative
But why would surface features visibly cross the terminator if it weren't rotating ever so slightly? If it were simply motion of the spacecraft, the terminator would move as well...it didn't.