It's not THAT resource hungry! Sure, I mean, I had to steal, err, borrow a few human organs, particularly livers and kidneys and follow some archaic diagrams I found in my original Doom shareware documentation to create a device powerful enough to run Crysis at full capacity. But it worked damnit! For about 30 minutes... I think I got something wrong though when I built it because now all it wants to play is Doom 6, I didn't even realize there was a Doom 6 out yet! Oh, and there's this red 'gash' on the wall behind my desk. It's kinda oozing but but the drip pan takes care of that. One of my cats is missing too.
Awesome, the medication is working today it seems. Time to go find the cure for cancer! Or find a decent roast beef sandwich. Either will be good today!
For some reason the thought of this cult just scares the shit out of me.
Time to take up golf...
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You thought you looked awesome in that golf shirt and pimped out golf cart on the back nine? Wait till your friends see how you roll with a mini panzer!
Mind if I play through? *adjusts turret* Of course you don't.
I have not been infected while running XP now in some time. It all amounts to a bit of healthy paranoia.
As bad as this sounds, my policy on the net is 'trust no one'. If I get an email with an attachment from a friend or family member and I wasn't expecting it, I write back and ask them what it is. If I was expecting it, I give it a scan before I open it. If I'm talking with someone and they send me a link (doesn't matter the chat program and NONE of mine will auto open a link) I ask where it goes and what it is. If I don't get an answer or a straight answer, I just ignore it. Once a week I give my desktop and laptop machine a good once over with the virus scanner (I use Kaspersky), two spybot scanners (Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware by Lavasoft), then do a general PC health routine of defrag and scandisking. This usually takes place on Saturday morning when I'm too busy watching cartoo..errr..cleaning the house.
It's not that I think my friends and family are out to infect me, they have good intentions. However their machines intentions are only dictated by the person in control. People don't want to know about security on their machine. For most people it just gives them email and porn and as long as either keeps popping out when they push the button, they really don't care. My mom got infected once when out browsing the net (she likes looking for odd stuff, like blown glass bird feeders and stuff) and got hit when looking over one site. I cleaned off her PC and she asked me what she could do to stop it from happening again. I hated giving my mom the 'common sense speech' but I did, and then showed her what I do to keep myself clean. Her schedule isn't as anal as mine, but once a month she goes through, full scans and now she is more careful about where she goes. Yet to be reinfected, but we shall see.
I agree. I was only using those numbers as an example and I have sinus problems. Company X in reality is probably selling it to 400 customers, not 40 like I gave. This is where we get problems. The more oversold you are, the higher resources are stressed.
Not saying it's a bad thing to oversell, but when greed starts to dictate by how much, we all get hosed. All I want is to play my games (EQ2, WoW, Hellgate, Tabula Rasa, EQ, CoH/CoV, FFO), and download what I want in relative peace.
If he is promised 6M on the download, and that's what he uses, then I will have to disagree with you. It doesn't matter if he uses the pipe getting hentai (care to share?) or is using it to chuck linux ISOs about. He is not using it beyond the specifications outlined. He is using 6M and no more.
You're missing the real problem. I'm gonna pull numbers out of my ass, because I have sinus problems and pulling them out my nose right now would prove impractical. If net company X has a total of 100M of bandwidth they can sell, and they only sell it in 5M chunks and only to 20 people, then everyone can download at their max speed, no one notices, everyone is happy. Sadly, that's not what company X is doing. They have 100M of bandwidth, this is sure. They sell it in 5M chunks. But instead of only selling it to 20 people, they sell to 40. If all 40 people use the 5M of pipe they were promised, company X shits bricks, at best each customer is only getting half of their promised bandwidth, and people are cranky.
The point is, in that scenario, it doesn't matter what each customer of company X is DOING on the bandwidth they are promised. It shouldn't matter. They were promised 5M a piece, and because company X OVERSOLD the bandwidth to make more money, assuming their customers would not use the full potential of what they were sold, everyone gets screwed. Everyone except company X who is now making more money, probably gives shitty customer support, and won't use the money they got to upgrade infstructure and equipment.
FYI, I use Cox Cable in Oklahoma. They're a pretty decent company, but their up time ratings SUCK ASS.
Call me paranoid, but maybe they figure making it the 64bit version of it Vista only, there will be fewer pirated copies about. I know of few people who run the 64bit version of that OS and they're not really into photo editing. It does make their email download faster! So they keep telling me...
I mean, given the definitions flying around lately a chef makes a great terrorist. They're knowledgeable and methodical also. They have to be or the food will look/taste like crap.
What am I missing about what a terrorist is and is not?
I'd imagine that this thing will be roughly as cat-resistant as your keyboard.
Great, now when I come home I gotta check my computer to make sure the cats didn't put kitty porn on it...
*HIDE*
...I wonder if they tested this with anyone who owns cats. Mine jump up on the coffee table all the time. Does anyone know if this thing will pick up pets?
Does inventing a new joke count as evolution? I think not.
Semantics is so lovely to argue on message boards, it's like digital cock waving! Seriously tho, you think not? Why not? Since I'm lacking the time to take this any more seriously than you apparently are, I bow to you and your great mastery of the English language! Now, if you'll excuse me I have to add you to my friends list so I can pounce on the next mistake you make. Fun times! See ya in the reply.
While grasping at straws here, from your meme link:
Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: meme
(Pronounced "meem") A trend, belief, fashion or phrase that is passed from generation to generation through imitation and behavioral replication. Coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene," memes and memetics are the cultural counterpart to the biological study of genes and genetics. Using the evolution analogy, Dawkins observed that human cultures evolve via "contagious" communications in a manner similar to the gene pool of populations over time.
Although if you've any blackhole jokes as well, let's hear em!
PS - If you're gonna just post two words, wouldn't it be better to just send me a message?;p
Can we use this to generate some new blackhole memes? Stuff like: Blackholes are like opinions, everyone has one and they suck! or You can have blackhole when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
...and have coffee in the morning, water in the afternoon and vodka in the evening! I'm healthy as a horse! Save for the fact I now get erections when I walk by cardboard boxes...
In all seriousness, I do like iTunes. I own an iPod touch, but rarely purchased things from iTunes, at first. I own enough CDs that I can pick and choose from them to fill the lil bugger, but iTunes does tap into one thing well enough, impulse buys. Sometimes I hear a song, I love it, but I don't want to go buy the CD. So this is where iTunes is making a killing on me and taking my cash. I find the song, see I can sample the other songs buy the artist. A lot of my iTunes purchases have been single songs where I did not buy the entire album.
Now that they're creeping up in position as a distributer, I hope to see more stuff on there I usually buy in CD form. Anime soundtracks for example. If Apple started putting those up there it would bankrupt me. That and I have a hard time finding a lot of/most of the aritsts on Nuclear Blast USA http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/ on there. Oh well, here's to hoping I don't get screwed later cause I didn't put those apple stickers they gave me on anything.
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Don't rattle his cage man! I paid em $500 to go into the future next Tuesday so I can get my Fordoyta Focus XR2000 Flying Car early!
It's not THAT resource hungry! Sure, I mean, I had to steal, err, borrow a few human organs, particularly livers and kidneys and follow some archaic diagrams I found in my original Doom shareware documentation to create a device powerful enough to run Crysis at full capacity. But it worked damnit! For about 30 minutes... I think I got something wrong though when I built it because now all it wants to play is Doom 6, I didn't even realize there was a Doom 6 out yet! Oh, and there's this red 'gash' on the wall behind my desk. It's kinda oozing but but the drip pan takes care of that. One of my cats is missing too.
Now I have a way to make some giant Texas Toast, or as it is called, Texas Petatoast.
I think the more frightening thing is that my real name actually is Bob.
I hope I don't get sued for releasing my new beverage sensation into the wild: Corsec67 Cola!
It's liquid awesome in a nifty and vibrantly colored can! The energy drink for nerds, by nerds.
Please don't sue me.
Awesome, the medication is working today it seems. Time to go find the cure for cancer! Or find a decent roast beef sandwich. Either will be good today!
Isn't this one of those things? Or am I using the wrong word?
For some reason the thought of this cult just scares the shit out of me.
You thought you looked awesome in that golf shirt and pimped out golf cart on the back nine? Wait till your friends see how you roll with a mini panzer!
Mind if I play through? *adjusts turret* Of course you don't.
I don't think you've been infected while running XP now in some time.
One good turn deserves another.
I have not been infected while running XP now in some time. It all amounts to a bit of healthy paranoia.
As bad as this sounds, my policy on the net is 'trust no one'. If I get an email with an attachment from a friend or family member and I wasn't expecting it, I write back and ask them what it is. If I was expecting it, I give it a scan before I open it. If I'm talking with someone and they send me a link (doesn't matter the chat program and NONE of mine will auto open a link) I ask where it goes and what it is. If I don't get an answer or a straight answer, I just ignore it. Once a week I give my desktop and laptop machine a good once over with the virus scanner (I use Kaspersky), two spybot scanners (Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware by Lavasoft), then do a general PC health routine of defrag and scandisking. This usually takes place on Saturday morning when I'm too busy watching cartoo..errr..cleaning the house.
It's not that I think my friends and family are out to infect me, they have good intentions. However their machines intentions are only dictated by the person in control. People don't want to know about security on their machine. For most people it just gives them email and porn and as long as either keeps popping out when they push the button, they really don't care. My mom got infected once when out browsing the net (she likes looking for odd stuff, like blown glass bird feeders and stuff) and got hit when looking over one site. I cleaned off her PC and she asked me what she could do to stop it from happening again. I hated giving my mom the 'common sense speech' but I did, and then showed her what I do to keep myself clean. Her schedule isn't as anal as mine, but once a month she goes through, full scans and now she is more careful about where she goes. Yet to be reinfected, but we shall see.
And if you lived in Britain 400 years ago, and you're reading this, you're a witch!
And probably going to turn me into a newt.
Do you have your Google Identification tattoo yet, citizen?
I agree. I was only using those numbers as an example and I have sinus problems. Company X in reality is probably selling it to 400 customers, not 40 like I gave. This is where we get problems. The more oversold you are, the higher resources are stressed.
Not saying it's a bad thing to oversell, but when greed starts to dictate by how much, we all get hosed. All I want is to play my games (EQ2, WoW, Hellgate, Tabula Rasa, EQ, CoH/CoV, FFO), and download what I want in relative peace.
If he is promised 6M on the download, and that's what he uses, then I will have to disagree with you. It doesn't matter if he uses the pipe getting hentai (care to share?) or is using it to chuck linux ISOs about. He is not using it beyond the specifications outlined. He is using 6M and no more.
You're missing the real problem. I'm gonna pull numbers out of my ass, because I have sinus problems and pulling them out my nose right now would prove impractical. If net company X has a total of 100M of bandwidth they can sell, and they only sell it in 5M chunks and only to 20 people, then everyone can download at their max speed, no one notices, everyone is happy. Sadly, that's not what company X is doing. They have 100M of bandwidth, this is sure. They sell it in 5M chunks. But instead of only selling it to 20 people, they sell to 40. If all 40 people use the 5M of pipe they were promised, company X shits bricks, at best each customer is only getting half of their promised bandwidth, and people are cranky.
The point is, in that scenario, it doesn't matter what each customer of company X is DOING on the bandwidth they are promised. It shouldn't matter. They were promised 5M a piece, and because company X OVERSOLD the bandwidth to make more money, assuming their customers would not use the full potential of what they were sold, everyone gets screwed. Everyone except company X who is now making more money, probably gives shitty customer support, and won't use the money they got to upgrade infstructure and equipment.
FYI, I use Cox Cable in Oklahoma. They're a pretty decent company, but their up time ratings SUCK ASS.
Call me paranoid, but maybe they figure making it the 64bit version of it Vista only, there will be fewer pirated copies about. I know of few people who run the 64bit version of that OS and they're not really into photo editing. It does make their email download faster! So they keep telling me...
I mean, given the definitions flying around lately a chef makes a great terrorist. They're knowledgeable and methodical also. They have to be or the food will look/taste like crap.
What am I missing about what a terrorist is and is not?
Great, now when I come home I gotta check my computer to make sure the cats didn't put kitty porn on it...
*HIDE*
...I wonder if they tested this with anyone who owns cats. Mine jump up on the coffee table all the time. Does anyone know if this thing will pick up pets?
Sorry, gotta examine this part here:
Does inventing a new joke count as evolution? I think not.
Semantics is so lovely to argue on message boards, it's like digital cock waving! Seriously tho, you think not? Why not? Since I'm lacking the time to take this any more seriously than you apparently are, I bow to you and your great mastery of the English language! Now, if you'll excuse me I have to add you to my friends list so I can pounce on the next mistake you make. Fun times! See ya in the reply.
While grasping at straws here, from your meme link:
;p
Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: meme (Pronounced "meem") A trend, belief, fashion or phrase that is passed from generation to generation through imitation and behavioral replication. Coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene," memes and memetics are the cultural counterpart to the biological study of genes and genetics. Using the evolution analogy, Dawkins observed that human cultures evolve via "contagious" communications in a manner similar to the gene pool of populations over time.
Although if you've any blackhole jokes as well, let's hear em! PS - If you're gonna just post two words, wouldn't it be better to just send me a message?
Can we use this to generate some new blackhole memes? Stuff like:
Blackholes are like opinions, everyone has one and they suck!
or
You can have blackhole when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
Not askin for a handout here, just a blackhole.
...and have coffee in the morning, water in the afternoon and vodka in the evening! I'm healthy as a horse! Save for the fact I now get erections when I walk by cardboard boxes...
In all seriousness, I do like iTunes. I own an iPod touch, but rarely purchased things from iTunes, at first. I own enough CDs that I can pick and choose from them to fill the lil bugger, but iTunes does tap into one thing well enough, impulse buys. Sometimes I hear a song, I love it, but I don't want to go buy the CD. So this is where iTunes is making a killing on me and taking my cash. I find the song, see I can sample the other songs buy the artist. A lot of my iTunes purchases have been single songs where I did not buy the entire album.
Now that they're creeping up in position as a distributer, I hope to see more stuff on there I usually buy in CD form. Anime soundtracks for example. If Apple started putting those up there it would bankrupt me. That and I have a hard time finding a lot of/most of the aritsts on Nuclear Blast USA http://www.nuclearblastusa.com/nb/v2/ on there. Oh well, here's to hoping I don't get screwed later cause I didn't put those apple stickers they gave me on anything.
Quiet Monica, you'll blow our cover!