Ok dude. Think about the experiences these people are going through.
Thousands of people stuffed into a sporting facility. Ok, right? Thousands go to the games, thousands can stay, right? Ha!
No power = no lights, no air conditioning, no ventilation => sweltering heat of over 100 degrees, heat deaths of the elderly
No sewage disposal. The toilets haven't worked since Monday. Do you think that people just stopped going?
No food since whatever they ate *before* the storm hit. No water since whatever they drank *before* the storm hit. Sure some people have gotten supplies, but the vast majority trapped in the dome haven't.
No authority, no direction. They've essentially been stuffed in and had the door shut on them. You think police are patrolling in the dome? You think the mayor is in there reassuring people?
What do you do when you are cut off from civilization and you have no idea when, if ever, things will get back to normal or if you are just going to die of dehydration or heat stroke.
Ahh yes. The "primitive" neanderthal who survived the brunt of the last major ice age and thrived. Who had a larger cranial capacity than we Homo Sapiens. (Note that larger brain size is used as evidence for Homo Sapiens mental superiority in all cases comparing to other genetic lines (Australopithecus, etc) except when comparing to Neanderthals. In that case textbooks commonly claim that our brains operated "more efficiently" than the Neanderthals' when there is little reason to make such a conclusion.
I suggest you read up some more. The issue is more complex than you summarize, there is a reason that there is still a debate.
That's not enough to entice you? Then were you also one of those who didn't "get" the Internet until www?
Now I'm off to type two keywords into spotlight and find *every* photograph I've ever taken of "sunsets" at the "obx".
Now to make a virtual folder that contains every emailed file attachment I've received (and will receive from now on).
What's that weirdly named usenet client for OS X I downloaded? Should I search for it in my ginormous list of applications or just be thankful that I put "usenet" in its comment file?
And it supposedly had physics accurate space battles. Or at least, more accurate than general. (Ships didn't need constant propulsion, they would keep moving along their original path when turned, etc.)
You have got to be kidding. Do you really, truly remember the NES NG's insane level of button-mashing difficulty? Especially the last two.
NG on the XBox is loads easier (on Normal difficulty), in fact the game seems a lot harder than it is. Weird I know but when you finally play through on Normal and move up to Hard (or Very Hard) and go BACK to playing on Normal you could swear that you accessed some new easy setting. Enemies that once slaughtered you in seconds when you first played now clumsily stumble around as you evicerate them.
There is a roughly two to three hour learning curve though. Sorry you couldn't handle it. The game is one of the good reasons to own an XBox.
Are you suggesting that we, on a human scale, could do something to affect ecosystem change on a planetary level? Ha!
The planet will always be liveable, but it may not be liveable for us.
In fact, all macroscopic life is something of an evolutionary quirk. This planet (and probably any life supporting planet) truly belongs, and will always belong, to the microscopic. Nothing's meeker than bacteria.
Did you know that the fact that Earth has ice at _both_ polar ice caps is an anomoly in its history?
Did you know that Antarctica apparently supported green forests as recently as three million years ago (after the continent was over the south pole)?
Did you know that we live in a remarkably stable period in Earth's climactic history. From ice core samplings we have readings that show _incredibly_ fast fluctation in temperature and we have no idea _what_ could possibly affect the planetary temperature so quickly?
There's a lot we know, but tons more that we don't and it's arrogant to believe that we affect the planet on anything more than a small scale.
Sure the small scale is huge to us and has great implications for our (and that of other macroscopic life) continued health and survival. But the planet is fine.
I hate full service gas stations. I like to pump my own gas, clean my own windows, and check my own oil.
It's just a territorial thing.
As far as human interaction, what do we really get out of this "cashier/teller/pump service" interaction nowadays? A smile? A have a good day? A few minutes of silence as items are rung up?
I don't need to pay someone (directly or indirectly) to have a good conversation. I used to work retail and we all invariably disliked the customers who tried to chat us up. Despite what I'm sure were the best intentions, it was more patronizing than personalizing. We employees were used as conversation walls by people who didn't know how to talk to anyone else and knew that we had to listen, smile, and make with the small talk.
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Unless you're born with it.
There are two kinds of diabetes.
One supposedly related to sugar high diet in which the body stops responding to insulin correctly.
And one in which the pancreas never produces insulin. For that one must take shots of insulin everyday or die.
As much as I love books (see earlier rant in this story). Video games deserve to be ranked just a highly in our culture as movies. But the problem is that video games are less accessible than movies are. So I'm all for public libraries allowing their patrons access to cultural media that they would otherwise be deprived of.
Isn't that what libraries are all about? Smoothing the difference between the haves and have-nots?
I'm studying to get an MS in Library science at the UNC SILS program. Any library that I ever run will have LOTS of books. Sure, a few cheap Linux-based computers for 'net access. But books.
And what's with the silence? Who really _reads_ books at the library anymore? Now who reads books at their local coffee shop? I'm not saying that libraries should start having live music, but some piped in music instead of the oppressive silence would be fantastic.
XP is slower than 2000 on my at work station which was "upgraded" a couple months ago. It has the minimum allowed memory. Sluggishness abounds. There is no snappy.
No, but I am part of one of the universities that got academic access to Windows source code. Although I didn't personally review it, my compsci department friends have horror stories.
If Windows is configured and treated like any other mainstream OS, the difference between them in "security" is negligible.
Windows is inherently insecure. At a fundamental level windows allows (and indeed, requires) too much access for programs to operate. Just look at how many applications need to be installed with administrator settings. Compare to Unix (or Linux or OS X) and the clear separation of user and system.
Your personal tastes do not define "poor usability".
True. But that doesn't negative the fact that Windows is poorly designed. Friends and family using Windows==tons of trivial use questions. Friends and family using Mac==a few non trivial questions.
Funny how if you use Windows the same way do other OSes (don't run binaries from unknown sources, don't run with high privileges, avoid known vulnerable software like IE) most of those "security problems" (the few of them that aren't directly attributable to end-user behaviour, that is) evaporate.
Funny how if you use Mac OS X however you want, you don't have any security problems.
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Ok dude. Think about the experiences these people are going through.
Thousands of people stuffed into a sporting facility. Ok, right? Thousands go to the games, thousands can stay, right? Ha!
No power = no lights, no air conditioning, no ventilation => sweltering heat of over 100 degrees, heat deaths of the elderly
No sewage disposal. The toilets haven't worked since Monday. Do you think that people just stopped going?
No food since whatever they ate *before* the storm hit. No water since whatever they drank *before* the storm hit. Sure some people have gotten supplies, but the vast majority trapped in the dome haven't.
No authority, no direction. They've essentially been stuffed in and had the door shut on them. You think police are patrolling in the dome? You think the mayor is in there reassuring people?
What do you do when you are cut off from civilization and you have no idea when, if ever, things will get back to normal or if you are just going to die of dehydration or heat stroke.
What about a key fob? Can't get that for two bucks already.
Ahh yes. The "primitive" neanderthal who survived the brunt of the last major ice age and thrived. Who had a larger cranial capacity than we Homo Sapiens. (Note that larger brain size is used as evidence for Homo Sapiens mental superiority in all cases comparing to other genetic lines (Australopithecus, etc) except when comparing to Neanderthals. In that case textbooks commonly claim that our brains operated "more efficiently" than the Neanderthals' when there is little reason to make such a conclusion.
I suggest you read up some more. The issue is more complex than you summarize, there is a reason that there is still a debate.
Best overlord comment, ever.
So you think that a user could find the "scattered" files easily, but not be able to back them up?
Think about that for a sec.
Virtual folders. ... !!!
Metadata based search queries.
Both at an OS level.
That's not enough to entice you? Then were you also one of those who didn't "get" the Internet until www?
Now I'm off to type two keywords into spotlight and find *every* photograph I've ever taken of "sunsets" at the "obx".
Now to make a virtual folder that contains every emailed file attachment I've received (and will receive from now on).
What's that weirdly named usenet client for OS X I downloaded? Should I search for it in my ginormous list of applications or just be thankful that I put "usenet" in its comment file?
And it supposedly had physics accurate space battles. Or at least, more accurate than general. (Ships didn't need constant propulsion, they would keep moving along their original path when turned, etc.)
You have got to be kidding. Do you really, truly remember the NES NG's insane level of button-mashing difficulty? Especially the last two.
NG on the XBox is loads easier (on Normal difficulty), in fact the game seems a lot harder than it is. Weird I know but when you finally play through on Normal and move up to Hard (or Very Hard) and go BACK to playing on Normal you could swear that you accessed some new easy setting. Enemies that once slaughtered you in seconds when you first played now clumsily stumble around as you evicerate them.
There is a roughly two to three hour learning curve though. Sorry you couldn't handle it. The game is one of the good reasons to own an XBox.
Are you suggesting that we, on a human scale, could do something to affect ecosystem change on a planetary level? Ha!
The planet will always be liveable, but it may not be liveable for us.
In fact, all macroscopic life is something of an evolutionary quirk. This planet (and probably any life supporting planet) truly belongs, and will always belong, to the microscopic. Nothing's meeker than bacteria.
Did you know that the fact that Earth has ice at _both_ polar ice caps is an anomoly in its history?
Did you know that Antarctica apparently supported green forests as recently as three million years ago (after the continent was over the south pole)?
Did you know that we live in a remarkably stable period in Earth's climactic history. From ice core samplings we have readings that show _incredibly_ fast fluctation in temperature and we have no idea _what_ could possibly affect the planetary temperature so quickly?
There's a lot we know, but tons more that we don't and it's arrogant to believe that we affect the planet on anything more than a small scale.
Sure the small scale is huge to us and has great implications for our (and that of other macroscopic life) continued health and survival. But the planet is fine.
I hate full service gas stations. I like to pump my own gas, clean my own windows, and check my own oil.
It's just a territorial thing.
As far as human interaction, what do we really get out of this "cashier/teller/pump service" interaction nowadays? A smile? A have a good day? A few minutes of silence as items are rung up?
I don't need to pay someone (directly or indirectly) to have a good conversation. I used to work retail and we all invariably disliked the customers who tried to chat us up. Despite what I'm sure were the best intentions, it was more patronizing than personalizing. We employees were used as conversation walls by people who didn't know how to talk to anyone else and knew that we had to listen, smile, and make with the small talk.
Unless you're born with it.
There are two kinds of diabetes.
One supposedly related to sugar high diet in which the body stops responding to insulin correctly.
And one in which the pancreas never produces insulin. For that one must take shots of insulin everyday or die.
I carry it's genetic code.
Someone has been reading "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps".
I stole your post (remember, comments are owned by the poster) and put it in a text file on my desktop.
Maybe sometime I'll post that txt file to a website.
So what have you lost?
Yes yes, I am all about the Ninja Gaiden Black. Especially since I don't have Live so I missed the two expansion packs.
Logan's Run was a summer movie. June 23rd, 1976 even. The same day would see the release of War of the Worlds in 2005.
As much as I love books (see earlier rant in this story). Video games deserve to be ranked just a highly in our culture as movies. But the problem is that video games are less accessible than movies are. So I'm all for public libraries allowing their patrons access to cultural media that they would otherwise be deprived of.
Isn't that what libraries are all about? Smoothing the difference between the haves and have-nots?
I'm studying to get an MS in Library science at the UNC SILS program. Any library that I ever run will have LOTS of books. Sure, a few cheap Linux-based computers for 'net access. But books.
And what's with the silence? Who really _reads_ books at the library anymore? Now who reads books at their local coffee shop? I'm not saying that libraries should start having live music, but some piped in music instead of the oppressive silence would be fantastic.
Can't spend dollars in China without exchanging them to RMB first.
And once RMB, you can't (legally) exchange it back to dollars.
XP is slower than 2000 on my at work station which was "upgraded" a couple months ago. It has the minimum allowed memory. Sluggishness abounds. There is no snappy.
I'm interested in all the titles. In just about any title as a matter of fact. Especially when they get to the under $20 bin.
Baaramu (or whatever) is the code word to talk to sheep in the movie 'Babe'
You confuse analog trigger buttons, with regular push buttons.
The analog buttons on the XBox (as on the Dreamcast, N64, and Gamecube) make for awesome brake/gas pedals.
You might want better info.
I own an XBox, but not either of the Halos.
It has never crashed.
Many people I know own an XBox for XBox Media Center.
I own it for the games. (Splinter Cell and Ninja Gaiden especially.) Most of which use the system's true 5.1 surround sound support.
Are you part of the Windows development team ?
No, but I am part of one of the universities that got academic access to Windows source code. Although I didn't personally review it, my compsci department friends have horror stories.
If Windows is configured and treated like any other mainstream OS, the difference between them in "security" is negligible.
Windows is inherently insecure. At a fundamental level windows allows (and indeed, requires) too much access for programs to operate. Just look at how many applications need to be installed with administrator settings. Compare to Unix (or Linux or OS X) and the clear separation of user and system.
Your personal tastes do not define "poor usability".
True. But that doesn't negative the fact that Windows is poorly designed. Friends and family using Windows==tons of trivial use questions. Friends and family using Mac==a few non trivial questions.
Funny how if you use Windows the same way do other OSes (don't run binaries from unknown sources, don't run with high privileges, avoid known vulnerable software like IE) most of those "security problems" (the few of them that aren't directly attributable to end-user behaviour, that is) evaporate.
Funny how if you use Mac OS X however you want, you don't have any security problems.
If you have to go significantly into debt to get US$200K then you can't truly say that you are quite well off.
Well off perhaps, but for quite well off then you'd be dropping $200K as a downpayment on a house or a cool car.