Even more useless than the display on the G15 gaming keyboard It can be useful for keeping track of RAM usage, time and CPU usage. Or even HDD/CPU Temperatures. Or current bandwidth usage...
Personally I don't have a G15, and my System Tray is cluttered with so many monitoring icons. =P
If I got a G15, I could get rid of them and move it onto the keyboard, meaning I could even look at it while gaming or using a full screen app.
Making your games so awesome that people pay for 5 days straight and die from exhaustion is also popular in Korea. Let's not import that, though. So...we should make our games NOT awesome to avoid misuse by people?
I'd like to see statistics comparing real life bullying cases with suicidal ends and online bullying cases with suicidal ends. I'm guessing the latter'd still be higher?
If people kill themselves over online bullying, I bet you they have been bullied in real life too and that was just the breaking point. The same way the internet makes bullies anonymous and able to do things like post pictures and stuff which can't be deleted, it is also able to hide from bullies since they can't physically stop you.
In my opinion, these people have had been bullied in real life too, from a young age, to the point where they feel there IS no escape - not in real life, not on the internet, not at home.
I can see Bush figuring that attacking Sweden would be a piece of cake, seeing as how they're a neutral country with no army. I read that article - your post was *gold*! I think your post deserves a +5 Funny more than mines does. For people who can't be bothered reading the massive article, volpe is referring to:
Sweden has a well-trained force of about 25,000. The president looked at him appraisingly, several people in the room recall.
''I don't know why you're talking about Sweden,'' Bush said. ''They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.''
Lantos paused, a little shocked, and offered a gentlemanly reply: ''Mr. President, you may have thought that I said Switzerland. They're the ones that are historically neutral, without an army.'' Then Lantos mentioned, in a gracious aside, that the Swiss do have a tough national guard to protect the country in the event of invasion.
Bush held to his view. ''No, no, it's Sweden that has no army.''
The room went silent, until someone changed the subject.
George W. Bush: We have EVIDENCE that Sweden is hosting the servers of mass destruction owned by the notorious terrorist organisation, The Pirate Bay! Sweden is refusing to shutdown this evil group, so we must invade them to maintain peace in the world!
Random Person: But Mr. President...what does file-sharing have to do with terrorism?
George W. Bush: You must have missed that informative video presented by our friends, the RIAA linking file-sharing to terrorism. These 'torrents' can cause mass destruction and have already resulted in billions of dollars of damage to our economy and this is the beginning to them...torture, rape and murder is what is to come! We must liberate the internet from the tyranny and dictatorship of these file-sharers!
*Post-War with Sweden*
George W. Bush: I don't understand! We flattened every single server cluster in the country and Pirate Bay is up again...!
CIA: It seems they have multiple mirrors across the globe.
George W. Bush: They're all terrorist supporters! NUKE THEM ALL!
Bah...I hate Wikipedia bashers. It may not be 100% foolproof, but it's generally more trustworthy than half of your mates, or even your high-school teachers! Sure, you don't use it as a source...but to briefly read up on material, or get some basic specifications, it's great!
Yeah, they may seem ridiculous and stupid on the outside, but they're very scary on the inside.
Two of my mates went to the Scientology protest this month...on the anniversary of the birth of Lisa McPherson, who lost her life while in the 'care' of Scientology.
Apparently these days to avoid similar cases, if you're about to die, after having wasted all your money on Scientology, they tell you you have no hope, kick you out of the church, and send you home so that they won't be blamed for your death, statistically.
The answer is that CowboyNeal would sit on a couch The What Would Tom Cruise Do (WWTCD) ideology would dictate you *jump* on the couch. In any situation.
True, they made enemies of USA by getting rid of US owned businesses...but if I was Castro and these businesses was what was funding the dictatorship there, I don't think I would feel like compensating either. True, it also makes the embargo reasonable, but yeah...
Castro was an inexperienced leader who did some stupid things too. But as a person, I feel he genuinely cared for his country and his people...and wasn't going to let anyone - USA or even Soviet Union - get in his way.
There were so many times he outright defied the Soviet Union in an attempt to make his ideals a reality - something which made them have to make an ultimatum to force him to become their puppets.
So yeah...maybe it was the fact he wasn't a great politician/leader, that let him cut out some of the bullshit and become more genuine...not saying it's necessarily a bad thing he's out of power now...Just have a lot of respect for the guy.
Today, children receive next to no education in the field of astronomy. Were they to have a proper understanding of what lies beyond Pluto, they'd probably grow up to realize how silly it is to believe that there is only one planet like Earth. In Melbourne, Australia in Year 5, we did a bit of astronomy. I found I, a curious 11 year old, knew more than all three the Year 5 teachers put together (We did some special 'joint' Science and Technology classes).
In High School, we didn't cover Astronomy at all, nor did we have any Astronomy subjects...Our State's system allowed Astronomy to be studied as one unit of Physics, but teachers were to choose one out of about 3-4 units and our school chose Nuclear Reactions over Astronomy...
Well, down here (Australia), I walk into JB Hi-Fi and they have a whole section of just Blu-Ray Movies. And this up the front of the store - the first thing you see as soon as you walk in. Granted, whether this is from customer demand or the shop trying to gently persuade you to move changes it a bit (I am leaning towards the latter actually), but at the very least it is cost effective enough for them to blatantly throw it at you.
I've don't know anyone who has Blu-Ray formatted media yet (Though a lot of them have HDTVs), but I know when we went to the Home Theater stores to find out about pricing, models, etc, all of them made a point to suggest one of the newer DVD players - ones that supported Blu-Ray as well. They did make an effort to explain to my Dad what Blu-Ray was, and why it's important to have it.
So yeah, I don't think the change is being made fast...but it is being made from the 'player' side, and soon, when the prices of Blu-Ray media drop, it'll come from that side.
It'd also be great if people started releasing Blank Blu-Ray media too for data...
You make a good point about VHS vs DVD (which was a considerable step from analogue to digital). But if we look at the data formats - CD-ROM and DVD-ROM, the latter one even though it just has more size. Blu-Ray is not only progressive, but offers over half more pixels...it isn't a mild jump...it's 576i/p (4:3) to 1080p (16:9). And yeah, from a data point of view *considerably* more storage space.
But yeah, you're right...it will take longer than VHS to DVD...then again, Blu-Ray players can play DVDs, so it's got legacy support - unlike DVD players and VHS.
True, both companies have to convince everyone to switch from the Standard Definition formats to the High Definition ones...but that will occur over time. Unlike XP vs Vista, HD does have considerable advantages over its predecessor, so you just have to wait for it to become more popular. Like how VHS was phased out in favour of DVD - took a couple of years, but it happened.
These days HD Plasma/LCD screens and Blu-Ray DVD players and becoming standard, so now we just gotta wait for shops to start having Blu-Ray-Dominated stock and such.
But the competition between the two formats was so that WHEN the phase ended, one of them dominated. And that war was not about DVD vs HD.
True. 'tis getting harder to look for good fanfiction these days and it's not just yaoi/slash. It's the fact that within a universe, there are only so many plotlines. In something like Naruto or HP (the ones I read), the amount of possibilities are a bit more, but even then, limited.
So you're getting some great fics these days, written *excellently* and with nothing to criticise...but it's a storyline I've read 20 times before, with minor differences. So sure, if you've never read that before, it's great...but if you've read so many similar plotlines, it gets tedious.
In the past I could be stuffed reading through pages of crap to find something decent...these days I kinda rely just on looking at authors I respect Favorites on FF.net. =P
Still...I love fanfiction and I live off the stuff.
Sensitive information? You get onto Limewire/BT/Whatever to download Warez and other stuff. How often do you jump on there to grab 'sensitive information'? Most of that is available on FTPs or forums around the net anyway.
You mean all the yaoi-ness? Man, being a fanfiction reader...I know that yaoi-ness exists in *all* fanbases...some a LOT more than others (Naruto, Death Note etc).
Keh, my ex-girlfriend was like...in love with Light. I know it sounds weird, but I was actually starting to get bloody jealous at the end. When she saw the last episode, she actually went into a state of depression for a week...barely talked to me and such. >_
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Personally I don't have a G15, and my System Tray is cluttered with so many monitoring icons. =P
If I got a G15, I could get rid of them and move it onto the keyboard, meaning I could even look at it while gaming or using a full screen app.
~Jarik
~Jarik
What program?
VirtualDub+Avisynth. Imagine...1000fps encoding speed for DVD-rips...the possibilities...
*Five days from now...*
RIAA: Sandia promotes piracy...!
And I might get targeted penis enlargement ones...
Slashdot made me cut myself!
I'd like to see statistics comparing real life bullying cases with suicidal ends and online bullying cases with suicidal ends. I'm guessing the latter'd still be higher?
If people kill themselves over online bullying, I bet you they have been bullied in real life too and that was just the breaking point. The same way the internet makes bullies anonymous and able to do things like post pictures and stuff which can't be deleted, it is also able to hide from bullies since they can't physically stop you.
In my opinion, these people have had been bullied in real life too, from a young age, to the point where they feel there IS no escape - not in real life, not on the internet, not at home.
~Jarik
In 20 years time, when the internet infrastructure is reliant on these things, China will start testing their "Anti-Balloon Missile Program".
~Jarik
''I don't know why you're talking about Sweden,'' Bush said. ''They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.''
Lantos paused, a little shocked, and offered a gentlemanly reply: ''Mr. President, you may have thought that I said Switzerland. They're the ones that are historically neutral, without an army.'' Then Lantos mentioned, in a gracious aside, that the Swiss do have a tough national guard to protect the country in the event of invasion.
Bush held to his view. ''No, no, it's Sweden that has no army.''
The room went silent, until someone changed the subject.
World of Warcraft!
*Warning, purchase and use of this game can lead to loss of friends, loss of money and can lead to death. *
I can just see someone's Mum looking down at her son's Christmas wishlist, then back up to the warning label on the WoW case.
~Jarik
In future news...
George W. Bush: We have EVIDENCE that Sweden is hosting the servers of mass destruction owned by the notorious terrorist organisation, The Pirate Bay! Sweden is refusing to shutdown this evil group, so we must invade them to maintain peace in the world!
Random Person: But Mr. President...what does file-sharing have to do with terrorism?
George W. Bush: You must have missed that informative video presented by our friends, the RIAA linking file-sharing to terrorism. These 'torrents' can cause mass destruction and have already resulted in billions of dollars of damage to our economy and this is the beginning to them...torture, rape and murder is what is to come! We must liberate the internet from the tyranny and dictatorship of these file-sharers!
*Post-War with Sweden*
George W. Bush: I don't understand! We flattened every single server cluster in the country and Pirate Bay is up again...!
CIA: It seems they have multiple mirrors across the globe.
George W. Bush: They're all terrorist supporters! NUKE THEM ALL!
~Jarik
Oh really?
Damnit! I was wondering why that high-school dropout was making utility applications faster than me...
Bah...I hate Wikipedia bashers. It may not be 100% foolproof, but it's generally more trustworthy than half of your mates, or even your high-school teachers! Sure, you don't use it as a source...but to briefly read up on material, or get some basic specifications, it's great!
Biometrics became a wide-spread 'novelty' technology. =P
Seriously....all the new laptops with their useless fingerprint scanners. >_>
Yeah, they may seem ridiculous and stupid on the outside, but they're very scary on the inside.
Two of my mates went to the Scientology protest this month...on the anniversary of the birth of Lisa McPherson, who lost her life while in the 'care' of Scientology.
Apparently these days to avoid similar cases, if you're about to die, after having wasted all your money on Scientology, they tell you you have no hope, kick you out of the church, and send you home so that they won't be blamed for your death, statistically.
~Jarik
~Jarik
I disagree. The "WWXD" ideology is one of the first things psychiatrist learn in their evil course.
~Jarik
True, they made enemies of USA by getting rid of US owned businesses...but if I was Castro and these businesses was what was funding the dictatorship there, I don't think I would feel like compensating either. True, it also makes the embargo reasonable, but yeah...
Castro was an inexperienced leader who did some stupid things too. But as a person, I feel he genuinely cared for his country and his people...and wasn't going to let anyone - USA or even Soviet Union - get in his way.
There were so many times he outright defied the Soviet Union in an attempt to make his ideals a reality - something which made them have to make an ultimatum to force him to become their puppets.
So yeah...maybe it was the fact he wasn't a great politician/leader, that let him cut out some of the bullshit and become more genuine...not saying it's necessarily a bad thing he's out of power now...Just have a lot of respect for the guy.
~Jarik
*shudders* Do you really want to see what kinda weird shit you dream of?
Oh, so you think all good satellites have to be white huh? Got something against them cause they're black!? You white supremacist bastard!
In High School, we didn't cover Astronomy at all, nor did we have any Astronomy subjects...Our State's system allowed Astronomy to be studied as one unit of Physics, but teachers were to choose one out of about 3-4 units and our school chose Nuclear Reactions over Astronomy...
~Jarik
That's why we just need to wait for the USAF to hurry up and publically unveil the Stargate Program. =P
Hmm...
Well, down here (Australia), I walk into JB Hi-Fi and they have a whole section of just Blu-Ray Movies. And this up the front of the store - the first thing you see as soon as you walk in. Granted, whether this is from customer demand or the shop trying to gently persuade you to move changes it a bit (I am leaning towards the latter actually), but at the very least it is cost effective enough for them to blatantly throw it at you.
I've don't know anyone who has Blu-Ray formatted media yet (Though a lot of them have HDTVs), but I know when we went to the Home Theater stores to find out about pricing, models, etc, all of them made a point to suggest one of the newer DVD players - ones that supported Blu-Ray as well. They did make an effort to explain to my Dad what Blu-Ray was, and why it's important to have it.
So yeah, I don't think the change is being made fast...but it is being made from the 'player' side, and soon, when the prices of Blu-Ray media drop, it'll come from that side.
It'd also be great if people started releasing Blank Blu-Ray media too for data...
You make a good point about VHS vs DVD (which was a considerable step from analogue to digital). But if we look at the data formats - CD-ROM and DVD-ROM, the latter one even though it just has more size. Blu-Ray is not only progressive, but offers over half more pixels...it isn't a mild jump...it's 576i/p (4:3) to 1080p (16:9). And yeah, from a data point of view *considerably* more storage space.
But yeah, you're right...it will take longer than VHS to DVD...then again, Blu-Ray players can play DVDs, so it's got legacy support - unlike DVD players and VHS.
~Jarik
True, both companies have to convince everyone to switch from the Standard Definition formats to the High Definition ones...but that will occur over time. Unlike XP vs Vista, HD does have considerable advantages over its predecessor, so you just have to wait for it to become more popular. Like how VHS was phased out in favour of DVD - took a couple of years, but it happened.
These days HD Plasma/LCD screens and Blu-Ray DVD players and becoming standard, so now we just gotta wait for shops to start having Blu-Ray-Dominated stock and such.
But the competition between the two formats was so that WHEN the phase ended, one of them dominated. And that war was not about DVD vs HD.
~Jarik
True. 'tis getting harder to look for good fanfiction these days and it's not just yaoi/slash. It's the fact that within a universe, there are only so many plotlines. In something like Naruto or HP (the ones I read), the amount of possibilities are a bit more, but even then, limited.
So you're getting some great fics these days, written *excellently* and with nothing to criticise...but it's a storyline I've read 20 times before, with minor differences. So sure, if you've never read that before, it's great...but if you've read so many similar plotlines, it gets tedious.
In the past I could be stuffed reading through pages of crap to find something decent...these days I kinda rely just on looking at authors I respect Favorites on FF.net. =P
Still...I love fanfiction and I live off the stuff.
`Jarik
Sensitive information? You get onto Limewire/BT/Whatever to download Warez and other stuff. How often do you jump on there to grab 'sensitive information'? Most of that is available on FTPs or forums around the net anyway.
~Jarik
You mean all the yaoi-ness? Man, being a fanfiction reader...I know that yaoi-ness exists in *all* fanbases...some a LOT more than others (Naruto, Death Note etc).
Keh, my ex-girlfriend was like...in love with Light. I know it sounds weird, but I was actually starting to get bloody jealous at the end. When she saw the last episode, she actually went into a state of depression for a week...barely talked to me and such. >_
~Jarik