My dreams of becoming a superhero were trounced when I found out exposure to gamma rays only resulted in a tingly sensation and another pair of tentacles I didn't have before.
My dreams of running for president were shattered when I found out that it's actually selected by a gnome who resides in Miami and who's name must be never revealed for if it is spoken he will be stricken of his power. I asked if he'd pick me, he asked if I liked long walks on the beach, I said I've never been on a beach, he said try it sometime and no he wouldn't pick me.
My dreams of coming up with something witty to say on Slashdot were mercilessly smashed when I realized that I was just too damned tired from the Benedryl I took an hour ago.
I'm really not worried about insurance, and not so worried about jobs. I've come so damn near death so many times it just always feels like it's around the corner anymore. I don't have to cling to my own life, now I cling to everyone else's, and despite my asthma, I do what I can to help but it always seems so very little.
I'm already donating my body to science, this way I can do it before I'm dead.
Sorry, what did you ask, again? I was too busy registering to participate in one of the few things in my life I can do that can actually benefit all of humanity.
Oh, yeah, the way the internet has absolutely nothing to do with cost and technological limitations decades ago and when the internet was born it was a military network and later was generally a tool used between schools, then businesses, and much later just anyone who wanted to use it.
Google hasn't always been as good as it is now, it used to be when I tried to search "refresh rate somemonitormodel xfree86.conf linux slackware" or whatever I was having Hell with it, often it was just my keyword selection because I didn't understand there were less ambiguous terms to use.
I ended up going to IRC #s and stuff asking what I should look for on Altavista or Yahoo, sometimes people would just give me the right answer instead. It took years of this before people started pointing me at Google instead, which I finally turned to and loved.
Why are you replying to me complaining about moderation? I can't mod you and comment at the same time.
There's plenty of games, the blockbuster hits are for Windows because Vivendi and company seem explicit on only working with other corporations who's existence can actually be dumbly understood. Ask them where the fuck the games are.
Anyone who uses GNU/Linux to be a rebel are only fooling themselves. There are some people who actually care about the nature of their software, particularly licensing.
I'll play Fallout 3 as well, because thanks to Ubuntu's awesome installer I didn't have one ounce of trouble dual booting it with XP.
It amuses me that you review the present state of GNU/Linux based on your experience a decade ago. Particularly "I have yet to see Linux platform blah blah blah..." followed by "tried installing in (the era that everyone already knows all the distributions were a real bitch to work with in".
You should also mind the inclusivity of your comments, not all GNU/Linux users play WoW.
Oh, God, what am I to do with myself?! My computer will be doing the same thing for twice as long even though I've already intended for it to do it that long and I can still do a million things with it even while the conversion software is eating up my processor without a bit of lag thanks to the CFS!
No, not when what you're doing with it is illegal. They are ethically obliged to do as much as possible to ensure you can't run illegal, unlicensed software on it.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The damnedest thing is I just saw these figures after I started a conversion of ~11,000 MP3's into OGG's this morning. Does this mean that if I were using 7.10 instead of 8.04 it would take me 3 days instead of 6?
Most of the slowdown was UAC asking users for the n-thingmillionth time what the Hell the user wants to do, "(A)llow virus to destroy computer / (D)on't run this program that you really want to use"
I dropped out in 10th grade for an entire realm of reasons, many of which were completely outside of my influence. I also skipped a lot of school my whole life and avoided authority as much as I could.
I didn't do this because school was too hard or I didn't like the people, it just wasn't challenging, stimulating.
Instead I spent my time playing with my 386, reading encyclopedias and a wealth of information on old hardware and stuff my father had, and speeding through the textbooks I had borrowed from school just to get all the work done and piss off my teachers.
Why shouldn't you RTFA if the author didn't finish school? Imagine all the apparent 'morons' that built the internet and our complicated entanglement of computing businesses who never finished high school or college.
I mean using the placebo as a replacement for actual medication, not for control study. I believe it would be useful for many people, but I don't know of any studies proving it's practical to hand out antibiotics to make a patient better from their own foolishness.
I really don't see the problem with this. It's undeniable that the human mind is a finicky thing and what we believe strongly effects what we actually feel. It hasn't been absolutely proven that placebos do any good, but I can believe that if you make a person believe they're better than they really can be.
Antibiotics are a risky thing to bomb someone with all the time, but a z-pack every couple years might do a person some incidental good, like if they have gastroenteritis and think it's just what they're eating making things difficult.
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My dreams of becoming a superhero were trounced when I found out exposure to gamma rays only resulted in a tingly sensation and another pair of tentacles I didn't have before.
My dreams of running for president were shattered when I found out that it's actually selected by a gnome who resides in Miami and who's name must be never revealed for if it is spoken he will be stricken of his power. I asked if he'd pick me, he asked if I liked long walks on the beach, I said I've never been on a beach, he said try it sometime and no he wouldn't pick me.
My dreams of coming up with something witty to say on Slashdot were mercilessly smashed when I realized that I was just too damned tired from the Benedryl I took an hour ago.
I'll aim higher tomorrow, maybe.
I'm really not worried about insurance, and not so worried about jobs. I've come so damn near death so many times it just always feels like it's around the corner anymore. I don't have to cling to my own life, now I cling to everyone else's, and despite my asthma, I do what I can to help but it always seems so very little.
I'm already donating my body to science, this way I can do it before I'm dead.
Sorry, what did you ask, again? I was too busy registering to participate in one of the few things in my life I can do that can actually benefit all of humanity.
Oh, yeah, the way the internet has absolutely nothing to do with cost and technological limitations decades ago and when the internet was born it was a military network and later was generally a tool used between schools, then businesses, and much later just anyone who wanted to use it.
Nothing at all.
Google hasn't always been as good as it is now, it used to be when I tried to search "refresh rate somemonitormodel xfree86.conf linux slackware" or whatever I was having Hell with it, often it was just my keyword selection because I didn't understand there were less ambiguous terms to use.
I ended up going to IRC #s and stuff asking what I should look for on Altavista or Yahoo, sometimes people would just give me the right answer instead. It took years of this before people started pointing me at Google instead, which I finally turned to and loved.
I had this problem like, one time in my life. That was back when I tried to use words I didn't know the definition to.
RAM THOSE GIGABYTES!
Why are you replying to me complaining about moderation? I can't mod you and comment at the same time.
There's plenty of games, the blockbuster hits are for Windows because Vivendi and company seem explicit on only working with other corporations who's existence can actually be dumbly understood. Ask them where the fuck the games are.
Anyone who uses GNU/Linux to be a rebel are only fooling themselves. There are some people who actually care about the nature of their software, particularly licensing.
I'll play Fallout 3 as well, because thanks to Ubuntu's awesome installer I didn't have one ounce of trouble dual booting it with XP.
It amuses me that you review the present state of GNU/Linux based on your experience a decade ago. Particularly "I have yet to see Linux platform blah blah blah..." followed by "tried installing in (the era that everyone already knows all the distributions were a real bitch to work with in".
You should also mind the inclusivity of your comments, not all GNU/Linux users play WoW.
I think they already know, that's exactly why they're going there.
So it's not a physical limitation of the Wii to support them?
Wait, what?
Oh, God, what am I to do with myself?! My computer will be doing the same thing for twice as long even though I've already intended for it to do it that long and I can still do a million things with it even while the conversion software is eating up my processor without a bit of lag thanks to the CFS!
No, not when what you're doing with it is illegal. They are ethically obliged to do as much as possible to ensure you can't run illegal, unlicensed software on it.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
What's SDHC?
The damnedest thing is I just saw these figures after I started a conversion of ~11,000 MP3's into OGG's this morning. Does this mean that if I were using 7.10 instead of 8.04 it would take me 3 days instead of 6?
Most of the slowdown was UAC asking users for the n-thingmillionth time what the Hell the user wants to do, "(A)llow virus to destroy computer / (D)on't run this program that you really want to use"
I dropped out in 10th grade for an entire realm of reasons, many of which were completely outside of my influence. I also skipped a lot of school my whole life and avoided authority as much as I could.
I didn't do this because school was too hard or I didn't like the people, it just wasn't challenging, stimulating.
Instead I spent my time playing with my 386, reading encyclopedias and a wealth of information on old hardware and stuff my father had, and speeding through the textbooks I had borrowed from school just to get all the work done and piss off my teachers.
Why shouldn't you RTFA if the author didn't finish school? Imagine all the apparent 'morons' that built the internet and our complicated entanglement of computing businesses who never finished high school or college.
Did you think not he might just have a disability of mentality that keeps him from saying properly what he means to say, insensitive clod you?
Right, that's what I said, so why did you say it again?
I got your citation right here, AC.
Everything's in my head, so are you.
I mean using the placebo as a replacement for actual medication, not for control study. I believe it would be useful for many people, but I don't know of any studies proving it's practical to hand out antibiotics to make a patient better from their own foolishness.
Wait, what?
Vasectomies don't really make your little guys stop running around, they just make you think they're not supposed to anymore.
I really don't see the problem with this. It's undeniable that the human mind is a finicky thing and what we believe strongly effects what we actually feel. It hasn't been absolutely proven that placebos do any good, but I can believe that if you make a person believe they're better than they really can be.
Antibiotics are a risky thing to bomb someone with all the time, but a z-pack every couple years might do a person some incidental good, like if they have gastroenteritis and think it's just what they're eating making things difficult.
It really is just in your head sometimes.