Ok, so maybe this is a little off topic. I'll turn off my +1.
"If people think that the entertainment industry losing jobs to Canada is the whole problem, they aren't seeing the big picture."
LOSING JOBS TO CANADA????
Fuck, everybody from Canada is moving down to the states! It's called the "Brain Drain" up here. Once somebody's got enough skills to become a coveted professional, he's also got enough skills to see that making a lot more a year with a LOT less tax is the way to go.
Canada invariably loses jobs to the States, with the same people doing them for higher pay! The money stays in the US and all you yanks can be happy, while people up here get mad becuase of all the socialistic crap that got those people a good enough education to do their highly paid jobs.
In other words I pay taxes into a school system that educates people for free, and then sends them and their skills to the US.
Don't say you lose jobs to Canada. Ohhh no.
Re:My favorite part...
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Bert Is Evil
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Bert and Ernie can't be gay! Are you serious! No fucking way! I grew up watching that shit!
Goddamn faeries, I ain't gonna let my kids watch that garbage. Polluting their heads.
It's paragraphs like that the rest of the world hates, don't you understand?
We're all sick and fucking tired of hearing about
America the Proud Last bastion of Freedom, when in reality 90% of you Yanks are fat redneck slobs that can't tell a computer from a dishwasher and don't want to.
Sure, the other 10% of you do a decent job making up for the slackers, but please try to realize how the world views you. We don't love america. We probably never will. America seems content to legislate everybody into little boxes and put padlocks on them.
Sure makes me fucking angry to be a puppet Canadian.
You'd think metal would work better. Human flesh has the tendancy to allow highly-powered bullets to rip through it like butter.
Plus, metal doesn't scream and struggle, and you don't have to assume more weight from it after it's been shot once.
Kevlar vests would work well too. For a group that can build a Dr. Evil style underground cave network, you'd think such childish tactics as a human shield wouldn't be in practice.
3D acceleration
Head tracking
Finger motion tracking
and a sufficiently powerfull processor, it would be possible to make basically a floating keyboard out in front of you, visible stereoscopically through the glasses as being in a comfortable ergonomic position.
You could then type on this nonexistent keyboard! With headphones, it would even be possible to have audible feedback in your ears every time you hit a key.
I think it would be cool to walk around with regular sunglasses on and see time/date and other information popups appear around the edges of my vision, focussed to infinity.
I guess I'll have to wait for brain implanted chips and retinal projectors, though:D
Who the hell cares about the bubonic plague? We dealt with that shit back in the 1200's. There are more important diseases these scientists should have been studying, like AIDS and cancers.
I do have a copy of office 2000. I upgraded to XP and like the new stuff - task panes are great and the new Outlook is a joy to use. Stops that VBS nonsense too.
23mb is nothing. I'm running 768mb of ram right now. A 512mb stick cost me like $60 canadian. If you only have 128, maybe I can see that being a lot, but it's so cheap that you're only hurting yourself by running such an underpowered system.
My boot time on Windows 2000 is about 30 seconds. If XP is preloading in that time, I'd say that's well programmed
Shelled out a myriad of cash for Microsoft's Office XP, a few weeks ago.
Despite how much you might hate the company, this is one hell of a product. Launches in seconds, takes up scant amounts of ram, hasn't crashed yet. It's going to be a tough one to beat... especially since every area where it excels (no pun intended), Staroffice falls behind (what a hog!).
Whatever happened to it having been released open source? Where is GStarOffice with GTK+ widgets and Gnome integration? At least KOffice works well with the rest of the KDE apps...
I attend the Technical University of British Columbia, and almost all of our IT work is done in teams. We have to write up our contribution and grade others on the amount they have done for projects.
Coding styles can be hard to combine, so often we each write routines with standardized ways of having them talk to each other instead of directly working on the same code. Probably when we get better at it, we'll be able to adobt a GPL style development system, with everybody checking each other's code and being able to figure out what the heck it's supposed to do!:-)
...but the current OpenGL standard is extensible enough for the time being. More important would be a complete OpenAPI setup with input, sound, network, and graphics options all combined and available on all platforms.
Sure, including specific instructions for per-pixel operations etc. for all cards as opposed to stuff like GL_EXT_NVIDIA_WHATEVER would be great, but it's not likely that there will be many drivers for any older cards for this, and all the new cards have great GL drivers already...
Obviously, if an encryption scheme CAN be broken with a 100% working every-situation decrypt, it will be. It's only a matter of months.
Any encyption software like this, with a backdoor, would be ridiculous to even consider using for privacy. Even if you're not worried about the government reading it, you would be worried about malicious crackers reading it - the same people you didn't want reading it in the first place.
So if it can be cracked, it's not really encryption.. and nobody will use it.
The cat is out of the bag anyways... PGP and GPG and various other schemes available open source and abroad mean that there's no way to enforce something like this.
BCAA, the British Columbia Automobile Association, can give you freedom from headaches by providing towing services and help for you and your vehicle when in situations like locking your keys in the car.
A good starter car would be something like a Chevy Malibu. One of the automatic-transmission Volkswagens would also do you wonders.
[Mandrake, Suse]
Once you crave a little bit more power, but still a friendly set of controls, you might want to look at something like a Chrysler (or Dodge).(Debian and Progeny)
As you get better at driving, you may want more power and better handling, as well as a bigger engine [and you're probably going to want to rebuild the engine yourself, too]. A BMW or standard Volkswagen would cut it, as well as more powerful vehicles like a Corvette or a Camaro.
[Suse, Debian Woody, Red Hat]
Once you're a driving pro and you've learned lots about the internals of your car as well, grab a few manuals and a wrench and build yourself a hto rod from scratch with all the parts chosen and built specifically for your vehicle.
[Linux from Scratch].
What a waste!
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Case Tweaking
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To take that beautiful Mac hardware and replace it with disgusting PC crap? Just to have a nice case?
You can BUY imacky cases.... why ruin a G4 to do it, I don't know.
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Ok, so maybe this is a little off topic. I'll turn off my +1.
"If people think that the entertainment industry losing jobs to Canada is the whole problem, they aren't seeing the big picture."
LOSING JOBS TO CANADA????
Fuck, everybody from Canada is moving down to the states! It's called the "Brain Drain" up here. Once somebody's got enough skills to become a coveted professional, he's also got enough skills to see that making a lot more a year with a LOT less tax is the way to go.
Canada invariably loses jobs to the States, with the same people doing them for higher pay! The money stays in the US and all you yanks can be happy, while people up here get mad becuase of all the socialistic crap that got those people a good enough education to do their highly paid jobs.
In other words I pay taxes into a school system that educates people for free, and then sends them and their skills to the US.
Don't say you lose jobs to Canada. Ohhh no.
Bert and Ernie can't be gay! Are you serious! No fucking way! I grew up watching that shit!
Goddamn faeries, I ain't gonna let my kids watch that garbage. Polluting their heads.
It's paragraphs like that the rest of the world hates, don't you understand?
We're all sick and fucking tired of hearing about
America the Proud Last bastion of Freedom, when in reality 90% of you Yanks are fat redneck slobs that can't tell a computer from a dishwasher and don't want to.
Sure, the other 10% of you do a decent job making up for the slackers, but please try to realize how the world views you. We don't love america. We probably never will. America seems content to legislate everybody into little boxes and put padlocks on them.
Sure makes me fucking angry to be a puppet Canadian.
They should call the new version "Viagra". Takes about an hour to build anything interesting anyways!
You'd think metal would work better. Human flesh has the tendancy to allow highly-powered bullets to rip through it like butter.
Plus, metal doesn't scream and struggle, and you don't have to assume more weight from it after it's been shot once.
Kevlar vests would work well too. For a group that can build a Dr. Evil style underground cave network, you'd think such childish tactics as a human shield wouldn't be in practice.
Whatchu talkin' about, willis?
In IE here, it takes a mouseup for them to appear. IE5.5SP2 on Win2k...
If one integrated:
:D
3D acceleration
Head tracking
Finger motion tracking
and a sufficiently powerfull processor, it would be possible to make basically a floating keyboard out in front of you, visible stereoscopically through the glasses as being in a comfortable ergonomic position.
You could then type on this nonexistent keyboard! With headphones, it would even be possible to have audible feedback in your ears every time you hit a key.
I think it would be cool to walk around with regular sunglasses on and see time/date and other information popups appear around the edges of my vision, focussed to infinity.
I guess I'll have to wait for brain implanted chips and retinal projectors, though
Who the hell cares about the bubonic plague? We dealt with that shit back in the 1200's. There are more important diseases these scientists should have been studying, like AIDS and cancers.
I do have a copy of office 2000. I upgraded to XP and like the new stuff - task panes are great and the new Outlook is a joy to use. Stops that VBS nonsense too.
23mb is nothing. I'm running 768mb of ram right now. A 512mb stick cost me like $60 canadian. If you only have 128, maybe I can see that being a lot, but it's so cheap that you're only hurting yourself by running such an underpowered system.
My boot time on Windows 2000 is about 30 seconds. If XP is preloading in that time, I'd say that's well programmed
Shelled out a myriad of cash for Microsoft's Office XP, a few weeks ago.
Despite how much you might hate the company, this is one hell of a product. Launches in seconds, takes up scant amounts of ram, hasn't crashed yet. It's going to be a tough one to beat... especially since every area where it excels (no pun intended), Staroffice falls behind (what a hog!).
Whatever happened to it having been released open source? Where is GStarOffice with GTK+ widgets and Gnome integration? At least KOffice works well with the rest of the KDE apps...
I attend the Technical University of British Columbia, and almost all of our IT work is done in teams. We have to write up our contribution and grade others on the amount they have done for projects.
:-)
Coding styles can be hard to combine, so often we each write routines with standardized ways of having them talk to each other instead of directly working on the same code. Probably when we get better at it, we'll be able to adobt a GPL style development system, with everybody checking each other's code and being able to figure out what the heck it's supposed to do!
...but the current OpenGL standard is extensible enough for the time being. More important would be a complete OpenAPI setup with input, sound, network, and graphics options all combined and available on all platforms.
Sure, including specific instructions for per-pixel operations etc. for all cards as opposed to stuff like GL_EXT_NVIDIA_WHATEVER would be great, but it's not likely that there will be many drivers for any older cards for this, and all the new cards have great GL drivers already...
Basically, this is unneccessary.
That better be $89 Canadian.... I could go for a linux machine.
How do you enter text, etc? Graffiti style? OSD keyboard?
Obviously, if an encryption scheme CAN be broken with a 100% working every-situation decrypt, it will be. It's only a matter of months.
Any encyption software like this, with a backdoor, would be ridiculous to even consider using for privacy. Even if you're not worried about the government reading it, you would be worried about malicious crackers reading it - the same people you didn't want reading it in the first place.
So if it can be cracked, it's not really encryption.. and nobody will use it.
The cat is out of the bag anyways... PGP and GPG and various other schemes available open source and abroad mean that there's no way to enforce something like this.
Wouldn't a FIRST PERSON REPORT of the attacks come from somebody NEAR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER when it happened?
Hell, I was alive when it happened, put MY story on slashdot!
It would appear that these guys went out and saw John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars....
[for those that haven't seen it, it deals with a microorganism that is awakened by the terraforming being done by humankind to the planet]
You aren't very smart, are you?
The microbes aren't made out of gold, they find the gold and lump it together.
So, yes, you could fit the microbes in a glass of water. The gold? There's not even a millimicrogram of gold in your drinking water.
It would take billions of liters to produce a sizable amount of gold.
You drive a riced-up Honda Civic, don't you?
I can't wait for idiots like you to start putting VTEC stickers on their Athlons....
The ARTICLE was redundant. Way to fail.
They linked to the printer version of the article, which unfortunatly for my good friends at Sitepoint also displays no ads.
You would appear to be wrong.
BCAA, the British Columbia Automobile Association, can give you freedom from headaches by providing towing services and help for you and your vehicle when in situations like locking your keys in the car.
Thank you.
That's a bunch of bullshit. There's no way watching/experiencing something non-chemical can actually halt the development of your mind.
If the kids were snorting coke while playing Quake that would be different.
I'm sure this is just like the uncontrolled study of Rhesus monkeys that "showed" marijuana causing intense distruction of brain cells.
I can think perfectly fine right now, but i'm stoned. So, if I can make a point, it must not be killing my mind.
I play videogames often and I'm reasonably sure my straight-A's back up my intelligence.
I remember playing lots of games like Wolfenstein when I was 10 or so....
A good starter car would be something like a Chevy Malibu. One of the automatic-transmission Volkswagens would also do you wonders.
[Mandrake, Suse]
Once you crave a little bit more power, but still a friendly set of controls, you might want to look at something like a Chrysler (or Dodge).(Debian and Progeny)
As you get better at driving, you may want more power and better handling, as well as a bigger engine [and you're probably going to want to rebuild the engine yourself, too]. A BMW or standard Volkswagen would cut it, as well as more powerful vehicles like a Corvette or a Camaro.
[Suse, Debian Woody, Red Hat]
Once you're a driving pro and you've learned lots about the internals of your car as well, grab a few manuals and a wrench and build yourself a hto rod from scratch with all the parts chosen and built specifically for your vehicle.
[Linux from Scratch].
To take that beautiful Mac hardware and replace it with disgusting PC crap? Just to have a nice case?
You can BUY imacky cases.... why ruin a G4 to do it, I don't know.