We don't do shit to repair the roads as it is! If this was put into place we'd find a way to further screw over our highways. Some of these potholes are big enough the only way we get them filled is to hold a funeral in one.
Let's try not to get into cock waving here over who has experienced the most tragedy and death please. I only offered my experience as a point of reference for myself. I take no pride in that I can survive such an...experience. I can't claim to know all circumstances for all people. I admire (for what little my admiration goes for these days) you were able to survive the previously mentioned situations. Don't be sympathetic because of his choice, be sympathetic because he is dead. If not for him, then for those around him.
I just recently got a new DSLR camera so now I'm playing around with all it's fancy features. I figured I would see if I could get a picture of the Milky Way from my deck in Cambridge MA. After processing the heck out of it I got about 20-30 stars... it was really kinda sad.
I can relate. I got a DSLR camera a few weeks ago and have been reading up on it as well as playing with all the cool features. Still disappointed on how much the city lights drown out all the stars. I got a trip planned to a friend's farm out in the country to see if I can start getting some decent stars!
The honorable way out is working in the ruins to try and rectify your mistakes, not quitting when the road gets hard.
I suspect it's much easier to say this when you're not the one having to travel that road. No offense to you is implied by this observation Mr SatanicPuppy, but from a smaller degree of personal experience, it is easier said than done. The depression I entered after my brother's death (sorry, no details for/.) has had some long lasting effects on me, even if it was 11 years, 7 months and 2 days, 15 hours, 30 minutes ago.
Not saying I disagree, but still, easier said than done.
I tried to keep a blog once, but I honestly had nothing interesting to say. Most the time it was just my idle thoughts, and even _I_ didn't care to read them having just thought them. What few blogs I do read tend to be research or tech blogs. Apparently the millions of monkeys at millions of keyboards do get bored eventually.
Well, they did have 'OMG Win7 drivers download here!' listed under their support. *sigh* I had hoped for too much perhaps. Any suggestions on a good 5.1 card?
...for Creative Labs to get on the ball and release 64bit audio drivers for the X-Fi series that don't cause constant crackling and odd behavior. I swear, past their XP drivers, the drivers for Vista and Win7 are horrid. Least I got a USB headset that works well. The rest of my Win7 RC test machine works wonderfully though, save for the sound, which is driving me insane.
Does anyone else have this issue? Am I insane? Will Dudley Do-Right save Nell Fenwick?
Black jump suit, glass cutter, crowbar, can of black spray paint, butterfly knife, pack of smokes, maybe a giant burlap sack with a green $$$ printed on the side because if it said 'data' it might look suspicious...
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
Ah yes, I remember this form of trauma. When I was young my friend and I decided to go searching through his parent's closet during the holiday season cause that's where the presents are hidden by every parent, ever. We didn't find the presents, we did find a photo of his mom (a nice woman, but a very very large woman) sprawled across something with his dad (whom had one good eye and another...not so good eye) 'holding onto' her from behind. Well, you could see his head, his arm and part of a leg, so we assumed it was him.
His parents were nice people, I mean no disrespect, but cripes... Gave up looking after that surprise. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find one of those oversized q-tips and jab it into the skull a few times.
I have had similar experiences of the 'cult mentality' with a friend using a Macbook. I have a little media server that sits in the entertainment center called 'TheDen'. That is how it is seen on the network. My laptops (Ubuntu, Vista 32bit, XP 32bit) see it, and the desktop sees it (Win7 64bit). No issues browsing, copying, or streaming. Said friend with the Macbook could not see it. I have no clue how a OS X views/browses things on a local network. I tried several things from his laptop (which was mostly blind fumbling on my part) and did not know how to tell OS X where it sat. He did not know either. Somehow though, this was the fault of 'faulty PC technology' that he didn't trust and was the sole reason he couldn't see the shares. It doesn't matter how good the OS may be, if you don't know how to use it, "just works" doesn't mean a thing.
Man am I gonna look hideous in 2050. I can barely get away without cutting my face with just 3 blades on the device. With 100 I might as well duct tape the cat to my face then jump in the cold shower.
Just merge with your WoW account... are you saying you never played World of Warcraft?!
What is this...World of Warcraft...of which you speak? Is it popular? I hope it doesn't have gold farming that ruined my Legend of the Red Dragon experience. *hide*
Maybe this is what they were meaning instead? For a low fee one of the elves of Lord of the Rings will personally assist you in the construction and improvement of your data center!
I figured, what the hell, give it a spin. Tuesday I sat down and installed Windows 7 64bit on my desktop machine. The install took maybe a few mouse clicks, some typing, and thirty minutes to complete. On boot it recognized pretty much everything in the system save for the sound card (Curse you Creative Labs and your poor excuse for drivers). It even recognized my HP Printer when I accidently turned it on, installed the drivers, and non of the HP bloat. It recognized the Killer NIC card in the machine as well and that Razer gaming mouse. Came up quick and clean. It ran, in my opinion as this is a personal anecdote, just as fast as if I had freshly installed XP.
I was able to install my regular software (a bunch of games, some vista capable burning software, a few image editing tools) with no hassles what so ever. The games ran as well as they did on my XP machine.
Things I did not like. Certain things are not properly named. There are two 'Device Manager' links. One is the easy to recognize one from the My Computer right-click properties, which brings up the panel as it would in XP. The other I believe sits in the Control Panel and presents a very odd list of 'external devices' (think keyboard, printer, mouse, etc) that was not what I was expecting. If waiting on a slow task initialized from another program (clicking on the downloaded file in the firefox download manager for example), it will gray out the initializing task while it waits for a response from you or the software. What is this 'passcode' it uses for home networking? These are the ones that immediately come to mind.
It has only been a few days and most of my time has been spent playing games, surfing the net or watching a movie (common user operations?), so I can not say for sure how fast/reliable it will be. For now, I am cautiously optimistic about it's behavior and pace.
Side note, this is the first time I didn't have to preload some special drivers for it to recognize my hardware to do a 64bit install of an OS.
I am so not going to illegally copy your building sized mural. Promise.
I tried to illegally copy it, but I think they got suspicious of me when they noticed I was building an identical wall as to what the mural was painted on only with wheels and a mere 20ft from it...
My Linux box runs more/better games than any PC, it's called a PS3. Go to Gamestop and look at the PC section (which looks like a WoW section, but it's really for all PC games) and then look at the PS3 section. Then consider that WoW plays on Mac. Crysis was the last PC-exclusive triple-A title and it was released a couple years ago and it flopped. People always get bad karma for saying this, but it's now official: PC gaming is dead. There are two major players left, Blizzard and Popcap, and they both play on Mac. Buy a PS3, buy a Wii - but don't let Microsoft delude you into believing you must be their slave to game any longer. It's no different than all the fucks who say "I hate Wal-mart and everything they do to the economy, but where else can I grocery shop while I get my tires changed?" Who cares if the answer is nowhere? MAKE SACRIFICES FOR YOUR IDEALS. Disliking Wal-Mart and Microsoft doesn't make you a better person, boycotting them does.
Thank you for you anecdotal evidence. Your call to Aiokit's is important and a representative will be with you shortly to address your poorly though out over generalization that PC gaming is dead.
I have a PS3, it sits mostly unused. The machine itself feels bulky and many of the games I can also get on the competing systems. Usually cheaper I've noticed. I didn't get the console (PS3) to serve as a linux/windows/amiga proxy, I got it to play games. Which it does, but not with as great of selection as I had hoped. I have a Wii, it sees as much action as the XBox360. PC games for me have included the new Dawn of War, C&C Red Alert 3, World In Conflict, FEAR 2, King's Bounty, Audio Surf, WoW, EQ2, Luna beta test and more titles but since I am not at home I can only remember the ones I've played recently. All I see in your above post is a lil mouth foaming and ranting. WoW plays on a mac, I know this. Who would have thought that one of the most popular games in America would go cross platform, I mean, it only makes sense. There are several games which are not very popular which are not published on any system outside of a windows box. In case you wish to address the "But you can run bootcamp for XP!" issue, please refer to another post I have made in this exact thread as I don't wish to repeat it.
Again, your anecdotal evidence is greatly appreciated and if you would please hold on the line; I will take it into consideration and give it the same courtesy and thought any poorly generalized rant deserves.
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We don't do shit to repair the roads as it is! If this was put into place we'd find a way to further screw over our highways. Some of these potholes are big enough the only way we get them filled is to hold a funeral in one.
So next year, we should be worried about Tiger Flu.
Don't worry, I hear it's gonna be GRRRRRREAT!
My theory is that it's the same reason my laptop dies after about 60 minutes....
Full screen hardcore transgendered nazi eskimo midget porn? ... Just saying, not like I know...
Let's try not to get into cock waving here over who has experienced the most tragedy and death please. I only offered my experience as a point of reference for myself. I take no pride in that I can survive such an...experience. I can't claim to know all circumstances for all people. I admire (for what little my admiration goes for these days) you were able to survive the previously mentioned situations. Don't be sympathetic because of his choice, be sympathetic because he is dead. If not for him, then for those around him.
I just recently got a new DSLR camera so now I'm playing around with all it's fancy features. I figured I would see if I could get a picture of the Milky Way from my deck in Cambridge MA. After processing the heck out of it I got about 20-30 stars... it was really kinda sad.
I can relate. I got a DSLR camera a few weeks ago and have been reading up on it as well as playing with all the cool features. Still disappointed on how much the city lights drown out all the stars. I got a trip planned to a friend's farm out in the country to see if I can start getting some decent stars!
The honorable way out is working in the ruins to try and rectify your mistakes, not quitting when the road gets hard.
I suspect it's much easier to say this when you're not the one having to travel that road. No offense to you is implied by this observation Mr SatanicPuppy, but from a smaller degree of personal experience, it is easier said than done. The depression I entered after my brother's death (sorry, no details for /.) has had some long lasting effects on me, even if it was 11 years, 7 months and 2 days, 15 hours, 30 minutes ago.
Not saying I disagree, but still, easier said than done.
Does this mean NYCL gets to change his first name to Badass?
Badass Beckerman does have a nice ring to it...
I tried to keep a blog once, but I honestly had nothing interesting to say. Most the time it was just my idle thoughts, and even _I_ didn't care to read them having just thought them. What few blogs I do read tend to be research or tech blogs. Apparently the millions of monkeys at millions of keyboards do get bored eventually.
Well, they did have 'OMG Win7 drivers download here!' listed under their support. *sigh* I had hoped for too much perhaps. Any suggestions on a good 5.1 card?
...for Creative Labs to get on the ball and release 64bit audio drivers for the X-Fi series that don't cause constant crackling and odd behavior. I swear, past their XP drivers, the drivers for Vista and Win7 are horrid. Least I got a USB headset that works well. The rest of my Win7 RC test machine works wonderfully though, save for the sound, which is driving me insane.
Does anyone else have this issue? Am I insane? Will Dudley Do-Right save Nell Fenwick?
Black jump suit, glass cutter, crowbar, can of black spray paint, butterfly knife, pack of smokes, maybe a giant burlap sack with a green $$$ printed on the side because if it said 'data' it might look suspicious...
What, no Zune support? *duck!*
Finally, a sectioned inclined surface for ascent and descent, for the rest of us!
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
Ah yes, I remember this form of trauma. When I was young my friend and I decided to go searching through his parent's closet during the holiday season cause that's where the presents are hidden by every parent, ever. We didn't find the presents, we did find a photo of his mom (a nice woman, but a very very large woman) sprawled across something with his dad (whom had one good eye and another...not so good eye) 'holding onto' her from behind. Well, you could see his head, his arm and part of a leg, so we assumed it was him.
His parents were nice people, I mean no disrespect, but cripes... Gave up looking after that surprise. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to find one of those oversized q-tips and jab it into the skull a few times.
I have had similar experiences of the 'cult mentality' with a friend using a Macbook. I have a little media server that sits in the entertainment center called 'TheDen'. That is how it is seen on the network. My laptops (Ubuntu, Vista 32bit, XP 32bit) see it, and the desktop sees it (Win7 64bit). No issues browsing, copying, or streaming. Said friend with the Macbook could not see it. I have no clue how a OS X views/browses things on a local network. I tried several things from his laptop (which was mostly blind fumbling on my part) and did not know how to tell OS X where it sat. He did not know either. Somehow though, this was the fault of 'faulty PC technology' that he didn't trust and was the sole reason he couldn't see the shares. It doesn't matter how good the OS may be, if you don't know how to use it, "just works" doesn't mean a thing.
Man am I gonna look hideous in 2050. I can barely get away without cutting my face with just 3 blades on the device. With 100 I might as well duct tape the cat to my face then jump in the cold shower.
Why? With EPP and a Dell discount I got it for around $50. Forgive me if it doesn't adhere to whatever assumptions you were running in your head.
Just merge with your WoW account... are you saying you never played World of Warcraft?!
What is this...World of Warcraft...of which you speak? Is it popular? I hope it doesn't have gold farming that ruined my Legend of the Red Dragon experience. *hide*
So Rat, do you see a future for this feature? Just curious as to your opinion.
Maybe this is what they were meaning instead? For a low fee one of the elves of Lord of the Rings will personally assist you in the construction and improvement of your data center!
I figured, what the hell, give it a spin. Tuesday I sat down and installed Windows 7 64bit on my desktop machine. The install took maybe a few mouse clicks, some typing, and thirty minutes to complete. On boot it recognized pretty much everything in the system save for the sound card (Curse you Creative Labs and your poor excuse for drivers). It even recognized my HP Printer when I accidently turned it on, installed the drivers, and non of the HP bloat. It recognized the Killer NIC card in the machine as well and that Razer gaming mouse. Came up quick and clean. It ran, in my opinion as this is a personal anecdote, just as fast as if I had freshly installed XP.
I was able to install my regular software (a bunch of games, some vista capable burning software, a few image editing tools) with no hassles what so ever. The games ran as well as they did on my XP machine.
Things I did not like. Certain things are not properly named. There are two 'Device Manager' links. One is the easy to recognize one from the My Computer right-click properties, which brings up the panel as it would in XP. The other I believe sits in the Control Panel and presents a very odd list of 'external devices' (think keyboard, printer, mouse, etc) that was not what I was expecting. If waiting on a slow task initialized from another program (clicking on the downloaded file in the firefox download manager for example), it will gray out the initializing task while it waits for a response from you or the software. What is this 'passcode' it uses for home networking? These are the ones that immediately come to mind.
It has only been a few days and most of my time has been spent playing games, surfing the net or watching a movie (common user operations?), so I can not say for sure how fast/reliable it will be. For now, I am cautiously optimistic about it's behavior and pace.
Side note, this is the first time I didn't have to preload some special drivers for it to recognize my hardware to do a 64bit install of an OS.
Yeah, that or Greenland... I could never get my pandemic to reach those two countries unless it started there...
I am so not going to illegally copy your building sized mural. Promise.
I tried to illegally copy it, but I think they got suspicious of me when they noticed I was building an identical wall as to what the mural was painted on only with wheels and a mere 20ft from it...
My Linux box runs more/better games than any PC, it's called a PS3. Go to Gamestop and look at the PC section (which looks like a WoW section, but it's really for all PC games) and then look at the PS3 section. Then consider that WoW plays on Mac. Crysis was the last PC-exclusive triple-A title and it was released a couple years ago and it flopped. People always get bad karma for saying this, but it's now official: PC gaming is dead. There are two major players left, Blizzard and Popcap, and they both play on Mac. Buy a PS3, buy a Wii - but don't let Microsoft delude you into believing you must be their slave to game any longer. It's no different than all the fucks who say "I hate Wal-mart and everything they do to the economy, but where else can I grocery shop while I get my tires changed?" Who cares if the answer is nowhere? MAKE SACRIFICES FOR YOUR IDEALS. Disliking Wal-Mart and Microsoft doesn't make you a better person, boycotting them does.
Thank you for you anecdotal evidence. Your call to Aiokit's is important and a representative will be with you shortly to address your poorly though out over generalization that PC gaming is dead.
I have a PS3, it sits mostly unused. The machine itself feels bulky and many of the games I can also get on the competing systems. Usually cheaper I've noticed. I didn't get the console (PS3) to serve as a linux/windows/amiga proxy, I got it to play games. Which it does, but not with as great of selection as I had hoped. I have a Wii, it sees as much action as the XBox360. PC games for me have included the new Dawn of War, C&C Red Alert 3, World In Conflict, FEAR 2, King's Bounty, Audio Surf, WoW, EQ2, Luna beta test and more titles but since I am not at home I can only remember the ones I've played recently. All I see in your above post is a lil mouth foaming and ranting. WoW plays on a mac, I know this. Who would have thought that one of the most popular games in America would go cross platform, I mean, it only makes sense. There are several games which are not very popular which are not published on any system outside of a windows box. In case you wish to address the "But you can run bootcamp for XP!" issue, please refer to another post I have made in this exact thread as I don't wish to repeat it.
Again, your anecdotal evidence is greatly appreciated and if you would please hold on the line; I will take it into consideration and give it the same courtesy and thought any poorly generalized rant deserves.
Not a particularly low UID, but I think you just upset the Mac Fanbois. Nothing to panic over.
Does that unlock a /. achievement?