Agreed. I was shoved to the ground one time in front of teaching staff by an upperclassmen whom I had somehow offended. They told me to "buck up". Two days later he attempted it again and I laid a closed fist square on his jaw. It ended there, guess it surprised him that I stood up, but I was immediately hauled to the principal. Guess who got suspended.
You just brought back memories for me. My mother also made a point of not allowing any kind of guns. I made guns out of lego, and then graduated to making rubber band guns out of random wood and clothes pins I found around the house. I ended up arming about half my neighborhood before my mother figured out where all the clothes pins ended up.
I had a similar experience with Airsoft(plastic BB guns essentially)when I was about 17. I also realized how much proper instruction in gun safety was after several of my friends shot themselves accidentally. I had been taught about pistols and rifles as I grew up, and my father took me to the shooting range a few times over the years, so I had the safety training they didnt get. If they had decided to pick up and play with a real gun they found, they could have seriously injured themselves.
Back on topic, I do think to a degree, these war games can be an encouragement for using violence to work out your frustration. I continue play airsoft regularly, with about a dozen people for years now. Inevitably someone will start to take things too seriously, so we have rules in place where we can send them off to cool down. That being said, I think banning it because some might have obvious mental instabilities that would make this lead them to shoot people with real guns is absurd. Will they ban toy swords and water guns next?
Modern hard disks, as in anything made after 1994, should never be subjected to an LLF. The tracks and sectors are defined at the factory physically and you cannot change them. Now, what I think you mean to say is you 'reinitialized' or wrote zero's over the entire disk. Almost every disk manufacturer makes a utility to do this that you can download from their website. This ignores partitions, so it will fix a corrupted partition table.
Damn, I have a 91 Chevy truck I use for work, 245k miles on the engine. Only thing Ive ever changed a was a fuel pump, and a clutch. Everything else was basic maintenance.
By their figures, Ive put $1,352,400 into the damn thing!
I call straw man. The reverse could be said of people who use voip to avoid paying for higher cost telephone service that doesn't have to compete with other traffic. If they don't want to pay more, they can use the internet instead and expect everyone else to slow their choice use of the internet for their latency?
Neutrality means indifferent treatment of all packets, regardless their purpose, destination or source. Last I checked its not 'Selected Network Neutrality'.
The prioritized voice services are something they sell to you at additional cost, competing with services such as vonage. I fail to see how that is related to QoS.
I regularly check the ToS of the two providers in my area, because they both suck, but some times one sucks less than the other. Both have big, broad sweeping claims that they are both supporting and adhering to net neutrality principles, yet they both also flat out state they prioritize VOIP service and degrade bittorrent traffic.
To me these statements are completely contradictory. I don't recall my neighbors choice to use his internet as a phone making my choice to use mine as a TV any less valid, yet that is in effect exactly what they are stating.
I do pretty much all of that via winamp and my zen. Winamp generates my playlists based on listening habits, automatically syncs new content to my zen every time its connected(via a usb mini cable you can obtain anywhere for a few dollars instead of a proprietary POS connector, I might add).
Another feature Zen's have over the competition is recording from FM radio. I attend conventions regularly and I can record a clean copy off their FM transmission, avoiding any noise/gain issues with a mic. Lets see an iPod pull that off.
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Agreed. I was shoved to the ground one time in front of teaching staff by an upperclassmen whom I had somehow offended. They told me to "buck up". Two days later he attempted it again and I laid a closed fist square on his jaw. It ended there, guess it surprised him that I stood up, but I was immediately hauled to the principal. Guess who got suspended.
You just brought back memories for me. My mother also made a point of not allowing any kind of guns. I made guns out of lego, and then graduated to making rubber band guns out of random wood and clothes pins I found around the house. I ended up arming about half my neighborhood before my mother figured out where all the clothes pins ended up.
Still have not shot anyone either.
I had a similar experience with Airsoft(plastic BB guns essentially)when I was about 17. I also realized how much proper instruction in gun safety was after several of my friends shot themselves accidentally. I had been taught about pistols and rifles as I grew up, and my father took me to the shooting range a few times over the years, so I had the safety training they didnt get. If they had decided to pick up and play with a real gun they found, they could have seriously injured themselves.
Back on topic, I do think to a degree, these war games can be an encouragement for using violence to work out your frustration. I continue play airsoft regularly, with about a dozen people for years now. Inevitably someone will start to take things too seriously, so we have rules in place where we can send them off to cool down. That being said, I think banning it because some might have obvious mental instabilities that would make this lead them to shoot people with real guns is absurd. Will they ban toy swords and water guns next?
Modern hard disks, as in anything made after 1994, should never be subjected to an LLF. The tracks and sectors are defined at the factory physically and you cannot change them. Now, what I think you mean to say is you 'reinitialized' or wrote zero's over the entire disk. Almost every disk manufacturer makes a utility to do this that you can download from their website. This ignores partitions, so it will fix a corrupted partition table.
Vista 64 users can always use dosbox.
Damn, I have a 91 Chevy truck I use for work, 245k miles on the engine. Only thing Ive ever changed a was a fuel pump, and a clutch. Everything else was basic maintenance.
By their figures, Ive put $1,352,400 into the damn thing!
Actually, I don't that is ironic at all.
Because its in a directory named "Miley Cyrus - Breakout [2008][CD+SkidVid_XviD+Cov]320Kbps"
Obviously.
Lets see, excessive use of 50GB would only take a little over 34 minutes to reach!
Its a building of holding... Duh.
Ah, you accidentally the whole first post?
Negative mod or not, that made my day.
I call straw man. The reverse could be said of people who use voip to avoid paying for higher cost telephone service that doesn't have to compete with other traffic. If they don't want to pay more, they can use the internet instead and expect everyone else to slow their choice use of the internet for their latency?
Neutrality means indifferent treatment of all packets, regardless their purpose, destination or source. Last I checked its not 'Selected Network Neutrality'.
Lol, you accidentally the whole equation.
That is soooo my new insult of choice.
The prioritized voice services are something they sell to you at additional cost, competing with services such as vonage. I fail to see how that is related to QoS.
I regularly check the ToS of the two providers in my area, because they both suck, but some times one sucks less than the other. Both have big, broad sweeping claims that they are both supporting and adhering to net neutrality principles, yet they both also flat out state they prioritize VOIP service and degrade bittorrent traffic.
To me these statements are completely contradictory. I don't recall my neighbors choice to use his internet as a phone making my choice to use mine as a TV any less valid, yet that is in effect exactly what they are stating.
Am I wrong?
However, in the world of LCD's and computer monitor, it is safe to assume the larger(and newer the display), the higher res it will operate at.
When was the last time you heard of a 22inch display that only did 1024x600, or a 14 inch monitor that pushed 1920x1200?
This is why I bought an eee. Run quite awhile when the monitor is turned off :P
With a 26GB cap on my down pipe a month, it really saves me that I can stash this thing at the library and pull all my low priority large files.
wrong mod, whooops.
I dunno about that, but it would take over 3.2 Billion of them to reach the moon!
'Hm.. someone who got a +5 FP? Oh, I have mod points!'
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I do pretty much all of that via winamp and my zen. Winamp generates my playlists based on listening habits, automatically syncs new content to my zen every time its connected(via a usb mini cable you can obtain anywhere for a few dollars instead of a proprietary POS connector, I might add).
Another feature Zen's have over the competition is recording from FM radio. I attend conventions regularly and I can record a clean copy off their FM transmission, avoiding any noise/gain issues with a mic. Lets see an iPod pull that off.
So much for ever getting a real catgirl :/
The news media is just inflating this story to improve their ratings. Nothing to see here.