I hate microsoft. in fact the ONLY item in my home that is microsoft is the Xbox360 and that is only because after trying the other options I had that was the ONLY one that had the games I wanted and the price point that was sane. I used to love playstation. I was die hard on PS1 and PS2, then sony became far bigger duche-bags than microsoft (I know, impressive!) and they pissed in my cheerios directly. So now, I have NO sony products, and no I dont buy any music or movies that is sony label. And I warn people away from them.
This is why. and yes I know that Microsoft will try to catch up to Sony's duchebaggery but right now the Xbox360 is the best user experience platform. And I dont see that changeing soon, Nintendo is half assing it... Ohh boy, ds reloaded as dsi and DS-huge... nothing really different at all. the Wii-HD will be no different compared to the Wii.
If they have spaceships, then they can go out to the asteriod belt and hurl an endless supply of ammunition at us that would decimate us and pose no risk at all to the attackers.
You are correct. it's not for/.'ers its for people that want to connect with others. I use it as a brand building tool and networking tool, same as my linked-in. I only post to my facebook positive things that build my "brand" to the point that I have over the past few years turned into a minor celebrity in some circles. A lot of people know of me that I don't know and they know my work, cripes little ol' me has 1500 fans on my fan page. It helps because only friends are on my page and everyone else sees my fan page. that allows me to insulate my private data stream from my public facing data stream.
THAT is what Facebook is really good at. mix in a twitter feed, youtube channel, and a "blog" that couples all together... and you have a HUGE brand building network.
It's also why I never even interviewed for my current job... I was contacted, they made an offer, I accepted and started. No interview, no Send your resume, no fill out a application...
p.s. : keep your social life not linked or not easily linked to your professional public facing world.
Exactly. Back in the 90's there was a space fighter combat game that was ugly as hell but was incredibly fun AND kept it difficult because it had real dynamics. If you thrusted in a direction, you kept going that way until you thrusted in another.
It even had the ability to do multi player across 2 computers using a rs232 cable.
Today? the closest thing we ever got to was Parsec and that died on the vine. everything else today is utter crap where you fly a ship that act's like a airplane. Yuck.
I DARE you to get Windows 7 edition special mobile release (or whatever they call it) for a Samsung blackjack 2. Hell I dare you to get a OS update for any phone that is 2 years old. Nokia stopped making updates for phones when they pass the 18 month mark unless there is a major nasty in symbian.
Windows flips the bird to lots of phone makers that use Windows mobile phones. I dont see you frothing at the mouth over them.
I wish! A merchant account for credit card processing is horribly expensive. I would KILL to be able to accept credit cards myself for low volume sparse transactions.
Maybe you don't carry hundreds... But I do as well as most people I know.
I don't have any problem spending them. In fact I have yet to find a place that will not accept a hundred as payment. Unless I'm being a prick and buying a pack of gum and paying with it.
It's also a market not centered around playing games. 90% of all linux installs are for work NOT gaming and entertainment. Sorry I dont want to run crysis on my servers or my phone system.
It's also why you dont see games released for windows Server 2008.
Because the journalists that coined the phrase were too stupid to know what it meant?
This term came from the same bunch of idiots that gave us "blogging" and "blogosphere" "web 2.0" and "podcasting" that we are now forever stuck with because they are trendy and catchy...
Rooting a box means gaining control of the root account. rootkits were typically a kit of tools you used to root a box, to get that root password or escalate your login to root privileges. . What we see as rootkits today are NOT rootkits. They are simply malware that used a bug to get in and run and then they hide themselves. Something that is NOT NEW and has been running around in computing for a very long time.
Learning a new language is a good one. it forces you to generate new cells. Learning a middle eastern language when you are a westerner will really speed it up as it is so radically different.
But that's not only for spoken language. learning a new programming language will also do the same thing.
It's also a major resource hog. you really need horsepower behind a joomla install. Putting them on a shared server like 1&1 or Godaddy has creates the worlds slowest websites.
I switched to silverstripe.. far more complicated but really fast and allows you to make a site that the customer can modify the content so you dont have to.
In africa there is a group of Christan churches that have been formed since the days of Jesus and were started by students of the apostles.. or that is what they claim. The Ethiopian orthodox christian church claims they have the ark of the covenant... and historians show their books and teachings to be very in line with what was happening around the time of Jesus death.
Catholic = roman Christan church and does not pre-date the one in Ethiopia. but old Europe history does not count them because they were not white.
I don't see anyone preaching about Christianity love... Please stop jumping to that conclusion when nobody even said it.
I grew up Lutheran, I see how it's all fire, brimstone, and fear.
I'm just surprised.. All of the Christian far right nutcase militias that do something bad usually get a lot of press on how "they are NOT christian.... bla bla bla...." from the leaders of the church etc..
I have yet to hear of any Muslim church leader say, " bin laden and the extremists are not Muslims but plain old nutjobs... please don't heap us together with them."
With the current world mess, it would be a great benefit for them to do such a thing.
Look how fast all christian churches ran away from Jerry Falwell and he was not a dangerous nutjob, just a standard nutjob.
Better solution, fresnel lens. it significantly reduces the off axis legibility. use one that is only an inch off the plate and even a few degrees off center will be obscured and blurry.
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I hate microsoft. in fact the ONLY item in my home that is microsoft is the Xbox360 and that is only because after trying the other options I had that was the ONLY one that had the games I wanted and the price point that was sane. I used to love playstation. I was die hard on PS1 and PS2, then sony became far bigger duche-bags than microsoft (I know, impressive!) and they pissed in my cheerios directly. So now, I have NO sony products, and no I dont buy any music or movies that is sony label. And I warn people away from them.
This is why. and yes I know that Microsoft will try to catch up to Sony's duchebaggery but right now the Xbox360 is the best user experience platform. And I dont see that changeing soon, Nintendo is half assing it... Ohh boy, ds reloaded as dsi and DS-huge... nothing really different at all. the Wii-HD will be no different compared to the Wii.
Why work so hard...
If they have spaceships, then they can go out to the asteriod belt and hurl an endless supply of ammunition at us that would decimate us and pose no risk at all to the attackers.
You are correct. it's not for /.'ers its for people that want to connect with others. I use it as a brand building tool and networking tool, same as my linked-in. I only post to my facebook positive things that build my "brand" to the point that I have over the past few years turned into a minor celebrity in some circles. A lot of people know of me that I don't know and they know my work, cripes little ol' me has 1500 fans on my fan page. It helps because only friends are on my page and everyone else sees my fan page. that allows me to insulate my private data stream from my public facing data stream.
THAT is what Facebook is really good at. mix in a twitter feed, youtube channel, and a "blog" that couples all together... and you have a HUGE brand building network.
It's also why I never even interviewed for my current job... I was contacted, they made an offer, I accepted and started. No interview, no Send your resume, no fill out a application...
p.s. : keep your social life not linked or not easily linked to your professional public facing world.
Exactly. Back in the 90's there was a space fighter combat game that was ugly as hell but was incredibly fun AND kept it difficult because it had real dynamics. If you thrusted in a direction, you kept going that way until you thrusted in another.
It even had the ability to do multi player across 2 computers using a rs232 cable.
Today? the closest thing we ever got to was Parsec and that died on the vine. everything else today is utter crap where you fly a ship that act's like a airplane. Yuck.
Give me game play OVER pretty any day.
No, there are some Nokia smartphones that give you 5 days at a time. My 5800 did that easily.
A lexus LFA would eat any corvette's lunch hard. plus the engine technology is 12X more advanced.
So why would I downgrade that car with a chevy corvette engine?
You want performance, use a ford engine out of the GT not the joke that comes in vettes.
I DARE you to get Windows 7 edition special mobile release (or whatever they call it) for a Samsung blackjack 2. Hell I dare you to get a OS update for any phone that is 2 years old. Nokia stopped making updates for phones when they pass the 18 month mark unless there is a major nasty in symbian.
Windows flips the bird to lots of phone makers that use Windows mobile phones. I dont see you frothing at the mouth over them.
You are missing it... My spare iBook G4 is running 10.5
Works great and the better SMB support means less lockups when using older linux based NAS devices.
There you go making a rational and well worded and thoughful comment in a iphone article thread.
Why cant people like you be like the rest of the nutjobs and simply foam at the mouth that the word iPhone was used?
Next thing we will see is a well edited story.... YOU ARE DESTROYING SLASHDOT!
Dang rational people....
I wish! A merchant account for credit card processing is horribly expensive. I would KILL to be able to accept credit cards myself for low volume sparse transactions.
Maybe you don't carry hundreds... But I do as well as most people I know.
I don't have any problem spending them. In fact I have yet to find a place that will not accept a hundred as payment. Unless I'm being a prick and buying a pack of gum and paying with it.
Companies normally don't include "clutter" and left over files in a release tree.
you never looked at files in microsoft releases have you.
It's also a market not centered around playing games. 90% of all linux installs are for work NOT gaming and entertainment. Sorry I dont want to run crysis on my servers or my phone system.
It's also why you dont see games released for windows Server 2008.
Crysis 4 - now with MS-SQL enterprise support!
Because the journalists that coined the phrase were too stupid to know what it meant?
This term came from the same bunch of idiots that gave us "blogging" and "blogosphere" "web 2.0" and "podcasting" that we are now forever stuck with because they are trendy and catchy...
Rooting a box means gaining control of the root account. rootkits were typically a kit of tools you used to root a box, to get that root password or escalate your login to root privileges. . What we see as rootkits today are NOT rootkits. They are simply malware that used a bug to get in and run and then they hide themselves. Something that is NOT NEW and has been running around in computing for a very long time.
You know how good people have mistakes and accidentally do something evil?
This is the same thing only reversed.
Oops! my bad!
Not impressed. Not at all. It's user friendly, to a point.
I felt the same thing about Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Someday microsoft will finally make a user friendly OS.
Learning a new language is a good one. it forces you to generate new cells. Learning a middle eastern language when you are a westerner will really speed it up as it is so radically different.
But that's not only for spoken language. learning a new programming language will also do the same thing.
Basically, find a subject and start studying.
It's also a major resource hog. you really need horsepower behind a joomla install. Putting them on a shared server like 1&1 or Godaddy has creates the worlds slowest websites.
I switched to silverstripe.. far more complicated but really fast and allows you to make a site that the customer can modify the content so you dont have to.
Oldest AND most known? yes. Oldest? not a chance.
In africa there is a group of Christan churches that have been formed since the days of Jesus and were started by students of the apostles.. or that is what they claim. The Ethiopian orthodox christian church claims they have the ark of the covenant... and historians show their books and teachings to be very in line with what was happening around the time of Jesus death.
Catholic = roman Christan church and does not pre-date the one in Ethiopia. but old Europe history does not count them because they were not white.
I don't see anyone preaching about Christianity love... Please stop jumping to that conclusion when nobody even said it.
I grew up Lutheran, I see how it's all fire, brimstone, and fear.
I'm just surprised.. All of the Christian far right nutcase militias that do something bad usually get a lot of press on how "they are NOT christian.... bla bla bla...." from the leaders of the church etc..
I have yet to hear of any Muslim church leader say, " bin laden and the extremists are not Muslims but plain old nutjobs... please don't heap us together with them."
With the current world mess, it would be a great benefit for them to do such a thing.
Look how fast all christian churches ran away from Jerry Falwell and he was not a dangerous nutjob, just a standard nutjob.
Oh no. the episode about Harley Motorcycle riders was epic.. dead on accurate, but also epic.
Absolutely epic....
dirka dirka jihad?
Honestly, these Muslim extremists are weakling ladylike pussies compared to the Buddhists.
Call me when you Muslim extremists have the balls to pour gasoline all over yourself, light yourself on fire and sit there and pray.
I really don't understand why the Muslim community is not publicly outraged at these people that give their faith a bad name.
nope. the SUN puts out far more IR light than you ever could with LED's and the reflective plates are very legible in the day time.
P.S. these dont have CCTV cameras in there. It's a Digital SLR with a nice lense.
Better solution, fresnel lens. it significantly reduces the off axis legibility. use one that is only an inch off the plate and even a few degrees off center will be obscured and blurry.