FFNP: 1 the probability of Full Frontal Nudity. 2. The same probability that your husband will want to watch the show. 3. Same number also the probability that the show will NOT get aired. 5.Foxy Fingers Nail Polish 6.Fire Fighter Name Plaque. 7. Free Formed Nano Particles. 8. fluoro furanyl norprogesterone 9. FOUR FREAKY NUDE PEOPLE. 10. Five Freakin Nude People. 11. First Four No Protection. 12. For Funny New Post.
One of the benefits of ABS that you forgot to mention (especially if coupled with vented Rotors) is less brake fade, and increased Heat tolerance of pads wich leads to increased braking power.
I am not saying your wrong, but just that I would like to see statistics where a modern braking system can be beet by a driver. And how many drivers out there can do that. If that is the case, why aren't people taught to drive like that from the begining?
Me personally, I drive a '99 pontiac formula, and I have only "NEEDED" ABS once, and traction control lots [but I don't have it in my car... 8') ]
once was when I was driving on a country road for the first time, and a sharp 90 came up on me w/out a warning sign. (it was really sharp, maybe a 10mph corner for sinage..) I was doing about 50. I slowed down as best I could, and braced for impact, all the while steering and continuing to brake as if by a miracle the wet road would somehow hold me. When my tires lost traction, ABS kicked in, and I simple went around the corner!
I have not tried to replicate that situation, but was grateful (for my car's sake)that I had ABS
It is EXCELLENT on snow and ICE. My '93 Blazer gets going good, but it wouldn't stop with the best driver from 35 on ice w/o ABS or a Tree. I grew up driving in snow, and am not affraid to drive my Formula in 2 inches or less. It just requires having a feather touch on the throttle, and some patience.
Sign on a nuclear containment building: WARNING: Radiation area. Prefaded genes only.
Said the sweet young lady, "Oh, I see how astronomers figure out the distance of the stars and their sizes and temperatures and all that. What really gets me is how they find out what their names are."
Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
Who could forget this one? Nerd Season A truck driver, hauling a tractor-trailer load of computers, stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar, he sees a big sign on the door that says, "COMPUTER NERDS NOT ALLOWED - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!" He enters and sits down.
The bartender comes over to him, sniffs, and says that he smells kind of nerdy. He then asks him what he does for a living. The truck driver explains to him that he drives a truck, and the smell is just from the computers he is hauling. The bartender serves him a beer and says, "OK, truck drivers aren't nerds."
As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in wearing a pair of glasses with tape around the middle, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of pens and pencils, and a belt that is at least a foot too long. The bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the guy away. The truck driver asks him why he did that.
The bartender replied, "Don't worry. The computer nerds are in season because they are overpopulating Silicon Valley. You don't even need a license."
So the truck driver finishes his beer, gets back in his truck, and heads for the freeway. Suddenly, he veers to avoid an accident, and the load shifts. The back door breaks open and computers spill out all over the road. He jumps out and sees a crowd already forming, snatching up all of the computers. The scavengers are comprised of engineers, accountants and programmers - computer geeks. Each of them wearing the nerdiest clothes he has ever seen.
He can't let them steal his whole load. So remembering what happened in the bar, he pulls out his gun and starts blasting away, killing several of them instantly. A highway patrol officer comes zooming up and jumps out of the car screaming at him to stop.
The truck driver said, "What's wrong? I thought computer nerds were in season." "Well, sure," says the patrolman, "But you can't bait 'em!"
I was in the VIP lounge last week en route to Seattle. Whilst in the lounge, I noticed Bill Gates sitting on the chesterfield enjoying a cognac.I was meeting with a very important client who was also flying to Seattle with me but she was running a bit late. Being a forward type of guy, I approached Mr Gates and introduced myself. I explained to him that I was conducting some very important business and how I would appreciate it if he could throw a quick "Hello Phil" at me when I was with my client. He agreed. Ten minutes later while I was conversing with my client, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Bill Gates. I turned around and looked up at him. He said, "Hi Phil, what's happening?" To which I replied "Bug off Gates, I'm in a meeting"
Thanks for pointing me into some good directions! I really appreciate that. I will be doing some new research. What I meant by players (and I should have stated) was hardware based players.
Also thank you for your time, today's most expensive comodity.
I agree completly that wav is inefficient for storage, but It's kinda like coke vs. jones cola, yeah jones may be better, but it doesn't really matter due to the market pentration that coke has.
And while MP3 may not be the best quality format, at VBR of 192 avg. it Sounds pretty good, and is better than no compression at all.
One other thing I am wondering is by compressing waves, we remove suttle vibrations, or vibrations along a current vibrations axis. I don't really know that much about sound other than the basics, and I know that DREAM THEATER sounds good to most people who listen to them.
One thing I would like to do is develop an encoder that writes the MP3(FLAC, OGG, ETC..) then compares it to the original file, and determines amount of distortion from the original. It could then rewrite the missing parts with a slightly higher bitrate.. and cycle through again. While this would be computationally intensive, it wouldn't be that bad for most of todays processors.
I am no audiophile, but I do feel that most mp3's at 128 sound "empty."
Besides, who doesn't have a home server w/ a petabyte or more these days. Wave used to be too big for our small drives, now I can fit a wave CD onto a mini sd card.
100 gigs is about = to 160 CD's in.wav format. + you get the bonuses of having the best digital sound quality to boot, every cd player can play them.
If you can afford 320 cd's surley you can afford 200 gig drive for about $70-$100 to hold them right?
There will be no comercials, we don't want your money, keep it! oh, but we don't want to sell anything either, so no more:
Potatoe chips chevron gas ice cold mountain dew (that one hurts eh?) Budwiser (O.k. so one positive.....) Dodge Ram Pickups Toyota Prius Levi Jeans Downy softener Pepsi/Taco-Bell/Pizza-Hut/Fried Chicken/ etc..
TY especially if you are posting from within a MSIE browser!
A business exists to provide a service at a value so as to also make money for it's shareholders.
OSS is not a business, but a movement. MS can't be and shouldn't be Open. I don't especially enjoy some of the things Micro$oft has done. But I love the fact that they are pushing software into the right direction. WinXP is robust. WinXP serves it's purpose. M$ office is also robust. If you don't like a feature, you can use VBA to create a new one. Granted they do need to screen their code better, but hey, who here produces flawless documents on a budget, and a deadline? Who here solves every helpdesk ticket w/in 60 minutes? (really small companies exclueded.)
How many M$ bashers have taken a basic ECON class?
You as a consumer "CAN'T*" make a purchase that is extremely un-economical
A business "CAN'T*" profit from selling something that sucks if there is a viable cheap and better alternative.
Speaking of alternatives. OSS can't Scale with the necessary support without standardization.
I am Pro OSS I am Pro M$ Think Yin & Yang OSS wouldn't even be a big deal these days if it weren't for M$.
* "CAN'T" doesn't mean that one individule can't if they wanted to, it means that as a whole, the trend will never ever go that way
Single player was o.k. but bots started to become "predictable" Then, then it got easy. All it takes is time. Soon your thinking your a god, start playing Onslaught, and get WASTED by 1000 people calling you some form of New guy or somethin....
I haven't obtained a new CD in ages, but if this is true, I hope SONY & their Spyware Partner MediaMax take a good fall for this. The funy thing is everyone calling it a "R00+ ||+." but if it's installing with / without EULA, then I guess it pretty much is a rootkit./*conspiracy theory*/ I would be highly interested to see if the exploit code for it was "leaked" somewhere by a MediaMax employee. Maybe some programmer had it out for Sony?/* end conspiracy theory */
Let me start by saying AV can really slow down a machine. Combine that with some form of (what is usually more needed) spyware removal software and you have all the makings to halve your computers potential.
O.K. so I exaggerate a lot, it is more like 30%, but it does slow a computer down noticeably. I used to run Ad-aware, and AVG. They both went to the can as far as accuracy goes. I switched to Giant(M$) and McAffee, after three years of never getting a single virus, and only getting spyware infections while TRYING (for testing purposes) I decided why run either?
The results have been amazing. My computer boots EXTREMELY fast & it's a few years old. I have two hardware firewalls, and I still can get blizzard downloader to run. (Although I must admit it took me a bit to figure that one out...)
Now, that doesn't mean I don't run a scan every now and then, I just don't have anything loaded to scan on the fly. Everything moves faster on my machine without those two resource hogs sucking up processing power. Even FAH had a significant boost.
My specs? 2.53 ghz 533mhz fsb p4 O.C.'d to 2.8 (10%)on stock cooling 1g generic ram. a craptastic 9800 se striped baracudas an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Now keep in mind, all may be fine on a state of the art machine, but for those of us who have a house, car, have girlfriends, families etc... we can't always have the latest & greatest hardware. But I guarantee that Johnny HardwareReviewer doesn't report frame rates with AV/Spyware software running, and if he does, he is probably ridiculed for having lower scores than Site x.
Listen, I agree with you whole heartedly, but your gratuitous use of the F-word is a little disturbing. What if I were a 13 year old "script kiddie" or something.
Now fictitiously I think that you must swear to be KEWL on/O.
I can just see it now though.. Political campaign adds in your favorite FPS. 8')
One add could go like this.... "Vote for me or else I'll kill you." Then later in the game you through non linear scripted action... could be "FORCED" to vote against him, or accidentally pull on a voter mashine handle and he could come out as a BOSS to beat.
Mmaybe some Special Sprays in CS (oops we got those allready)
How about a dell computers you have to access with certain keys in SYSTEM SHOCK 3000?
Better yet... A Liandri sign with the face of a congressional candidate.
True, it might be weird seeing COKE in an INNKEEPERS inventory of goods during WOW, but think. Advertized goods will probably be uber kewl.
COKE "allways refreshing" 3 min cooldown must remain seated to drink USE: Restores 100 mana / second If you continue drinking for 15 seconds get a "sugar rush" that gives you +15 AGI but -10 STA. Also causes you to "BURP" in chat!
Well said. That is primarily my belief as well. I don't think that the average person gives a hoot to have Outlook on their computers. 9.99 times out of 10 it's configured wrong anyway. People who have outlook to check pop 3 allways check the "delete e-mail from servers on download" box and then format their machine, and want me to get their e-mails back. When I show them ComCast, or GMail they are thrilled, and usually switch.
Now for scheduling, and Corporate stuff, I will have to give a nod to the previous poster. You can't beat Outlook. Not in the next 3 years anyway. They have INTENSE market penetration. The ability to look up contact info within an organization is AWESOME if a little difficult to use. and SCHEDULING is the primary function at my Corporation.
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I was going to Mod you + Funny, but then I realized that these days with ASUS Geforce 7800 GTX's
Well, Your probably just being honest!
FFNP: 1 the probability of Full Frontal Nudity. 2. The same probability that your husband will want to watch the show. 3. Same number also the probability that the show will NOT get aired. 5.Foxy Fingers Nail Polish 6.Fire Fighter Name Plaque. 7. Free Formed Nano Particles. 8. fluoro furanyl norprogesterone 9. FOUR FREAKY NUDE PEOPLE. 10. Five Freakin Nude People. 11. First Four No Protection. 12. For Funny New Post.
This document too long for slashdot...
I would like to see a link to that.
One of the benefits of ABS that you forgot to mention (especially if coupled with vented Rotors) is less brake fade, and increased Heat tolerance of pads wich leads to increased braking power.
I am not saying your wrong, but just that I would like to see statistics where a modern braking system can be beet by a driver. And how many drivers out there can do that. If that is the case, why aren't people taught to drive like that from the begining?
Me personally, I drive a '99 pontiac formula, and I have only "NEEDED" ABS once, and traction control lots [but I don't have it in my car... 8') ]
once was when I was driving on a country road for the first time, and a sharp 90 came up on me w/out a warning sign. (it was really sharp, maybe a 10mph corner for sinage..) I was doing about 50. I slowed down as best I could, and braced for impact, all the while steering and continuing to brake as if by a miracle the wet road would somehow hold me. When my tires lost traction, ABS kicked in, and I simple went around the corner!
I have not tried to replicate that situation, but was grateful (for my car's sake)that I had ABS
It is EXCELLENT on snow and ICE. My '93 Blazer gets going good, but it wouldn't stop with the best driver from 35 on ice w/o ABS or a Tree. I grew up driving in snow, and am not affraid to drive my Formula in 2 inches or less. It just requires having a feather touch on the throttle, and some patience.
I found theese here:
http://ma.tthew-cox.us/jokes/top_geek_breakup.php
Top 11 Geek Breakup Lines
11.
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail?
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? R
(A)bort, (R)etry, (F)ail? F
Relationship failed.
10. Now that Half Life 2 is out, I need to refocus my priorities.
09. You have been unsubscribed from my dating list. Please click this link to confirm.
08. I need a lover who understands that 20 hours a day on the Internet is normal.
07. I don't think we should date any more, but we can still be on each other's buddy lists.
06. I'd like a true beauty so I don't have to spend so much time photoshopping your ugly face out of our photos.
05. It's like in X-Men number 135, where Cyclops and Jean Grey (as The Phoenix)...
04. Let's face it. You love Intel, and I'm an AMD man. It's not going to work out.
03. What do you mean your EULA says that once I've removed the shrink wrap I can't return it?
02. After you e-mailed me your full-body shot, I realized I was looking for someone more feminine.
01. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Sign on a nuclear containment building:
WARNING: Radiation area. Prefaded genes only.
Said the sweet young lady, "Oh, I see how astronomers figure out the distance of the stars and their sizes and temperatures and all that. What really gets me is how they find out what their names are."
Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
The First Rule of System Programing:
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
--- Courtesy of http://www.randomjoke.com/topic/nerd.php?13492 ---
Who could forget this one?
Nerd Season
A truck driver, hauling a tractor-trailer load of computers, stops for a beer. As he approaches the bar, he sees a big sign on the door that says, "COMPUTER NERDS NOT ALLOWED - ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!" He enters and sits down.
The bartender comes over to him, sniffs, and says that he smells kind of nerdy. He then asks him what he does for a living. The truck driver explains to him that he drives a truck, and the smell is just from the computers he is hauling. The bartender serves him a beer and says, "OK, truck drivers aren't nerds."
As he is sipping his beer, a skinny guy walks in wearing a pair of glasses with tape around the middle, a pocket protector with twelve kinds of pens and pencils, and a belt that is at least a foot too long. The bartender, without saying a word, pulls out a shotgun and blows the guy away. The truck driver asks him why he did that.
The bartender replied, "Don't worry. The computer nerds are in season because they are overpopulating Silicon Valley. You don't even need a license."
So the truck driver finishes his beer, gets back in his truck, and heads for the freeway. Suddenly, he veers to avoid an accident, and the load shifts. The back door breaks open and computers spill out all over the road. He jumps out and sees a crowd already forming, snatching up all of the computers. The scavengers are comprised of engineers, accountants and programmers - computer geeks. Each of them wearing the nerdiest clothes he has ever seen.
He can't let them steal his whole load. So remembering what happened in the bar, he pulls out his gun and starts blasting away, killing several of them instantly. A highway patrol officer comes zooming up and jumps out of the car screaming at him to stop.
The truck driver said, "What's wrong? I thought computer nerds were in season."
"Well, sure," says the patrolman, "But you can't bait 'em!"
I was in the VIP lounge last week en route to Seattle. Whilst in the lounge, I noticed Bill Gates sitting on the chesterfield enjoying a cognac.I was meeting with a very important client who was also flying to Seattle with me but she was running a bit late. Being a forward type of guy, I approached Mr Gates and introduced myself. I explained to him that I was conducting some very important business and how I would appreciate it if he could throw a quick "Hello Phil" at me when I was with my client. He agreed. Ten minutes later while I was conversing with my client, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Bill Gates. I turned around and looked up at him. He said, "Hi Phil, what's happening?" To which I replied "Bug off Gates, I'm in a meeting"
I think it will be more geard towards "normal" jokes.
Like
Q: How many normal people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1. They simply call Handy Man express and pay $70 for a lightbulb.
I modded you +5 Cynical!
Thanks for pointing me into some good directions!
I really appreciate that. I will be doing some new research.
What I meant by players (and I should have stated) was hardware based players.
Also thank you for your time, today's most expensive comodity.
TY for the reply. That was insightful.
In good conversation, I am just curious...
How many audio players support FLAC?
I agree completly that wav is inefficient for storage, but It's kinda like coke vs. jones cola, yeah jones may be better, but it doesn't really matter due to the market pentration that coke has.
And while MP3 may not be the best quality format, at VBR of 192 avg. it Sounds pretty good, and is better than no compression at all.
One other thing I am wondering is by compressing waves, we remove suttle vibrations, or vibrations along a current vibrations axis. I don't really know that much about sound other than the basics, and I know that DREAM THEATER sounds good to most people who listen to them.
One thing I would like to do is develop an encoder that writes the MP3(FLAC, OGG, ETC..) then compares it to the original file, and determines amount of distortion from the original. It could then rewrite the missing parts with a slightly higher bitrate.. and cycle through again.
While this would be computationally intensive, it wouldn't be that bad for most of todays processors.
I am no audiophile, but I do feel that most mp3's at 128 sound "empty."
*.WAV
.wav format. + you get the bonuses of having the best digital sound quality to boot, every cd player can play them.
Lets see them try to DRM that...
Besides, who doesn't have a home server w/ a petabyte or more these days.
Wave used to be too big for our small drives, now I can fit a wave CD onto a mini sd card.
100 gigs is about = to 160 CD's in
If you can afford 320 cd's surley you can afford 200 gig drive for about $70-$100 to hold them right?
Current vehicle '99 pontiac Firebird 300hp o-60 in 5ish.
Only *cough* caught the one time i tried to run *cough*
There will be no comercials, we don't want your money, keep it!
oh, but we don't want to sell anything either, so no more:
Potatoe chips
chevron gas
ice cold mountain dew (that one hurts eh?)
Budwiser (O.k. so one positive.....)
Dodge Ram Pickups
Toyota Prius
Levi Jeans
Downy softener
Pepsi/Taco-Bell/Pizza-Hut/Fried Chicken/
etc..
TY especially if you are posting from within a MSIE browser!
A business exists to provide a service at a value so as to also make money for it's shareholders.
OSS is not a business, but a movement. MS can't be and shouldn't be Open. I don't especially enjoy some of the things Micro$oft has done. But I love the fact that they are pushing software into the right direction. WinXP is robust. WinXP serves it's purpose. M$ office is also robust. If you don't like a feature, you can use VBA to create a new one. Granted they do need to screen their code better, but hey, who here produces flawless documents on a budget, and a deadline? Who here solves every helpdesk ticket w/in 60 minutes? (really small companies exclueded.)
How many M$ bashers have taken a basic ECON class?
You as a consumer "CAN'T*" make a purchase that is extremely un-economical
A business "CAN'T*" profit from selling something that sucks if there is a viable cheap and better alternative.
Speaking of alternatives. OSS can't Scale with the necessary support without standardization.
I am Pro OSS
I am Pro M$
Think Yin & Yang OSS wouldn't even be a big deal these days if it weren't for M$.
* "CAN'T" doesn't mean that one individule can't if they wanted to, it means that as a whole, the trend will never ever go that way
Can you Say Unreal Tournament 2k4?
Single player was o.k. but bots started to become "predictable" Then, then it got easy. All it takes is time. Soon your thinking your a god, start playing Onslaught, and get WASTED by 1000 people calling you some form of New guy or somethin....
You are very right...
m _ramp/
? i=2578
Here are some sources
http://www.amdboard.com/65nm_120605.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/06/intel_65n
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx
I haven't obtained a new CD in ages, but if this is true, I hope SONY & their Spyware Partner MediaMax take a good fall for this. The funy thing is everyone calling it a /*conspiracy theory*/ /* end conspiracy theory */
"R00+ ||+." but if it's installing with / without EULA, then I guess it pretty much is a rootkit.
I would be highly interested to see if the exploit code for it was "leaked" somewhere by a MediaMax employee. Maybe some programmer had it out for Sony?
Must be me, cause I haven't even hit 60 yet, and I have been playing since december ' o4 (but in actual game play time, I am way less than 30 days)
you're from Western Washington too?
8')
I'll tell you why:
F P S
Let me start by saying AV can really slow down a machine.
Combine that with some form of (what is usually more needed) spyware removal software and you have all the makings to halve your computers potential.
O.K. so I exaggerate a lot, it is more like 30%, but it does slow a computer down noticeably.
I used to run Ad-aware, and AVG. They both went to the can as far as accuracy goes.
I switched to Giant(M$) and McAffee, after three years of never getting a single virus, and only getting spyware infections while TRYING (for testing purposes) I decided why run either?
The results have been amazing.
My computer boots EXTREMELY fast & it's a few years old.
I have two hardware firewalls, and I still can get blizzard downloader to run. (Although I must admit it took me a bit to figure that one out...)
Now, that doesn't mean I don't run a scan every now and then, I just don't have anything loaded to scan on the fly. Everything moves faster on my machine without those two resource hogs sucking up processing power. Even FAH had a significant boost.
My specs?
2.53 ghz 533mhz fsb p4 O.C.'d to 2.8 (10%)on stock cooling
1g generic ram.
a craptastic 9800 se
striped baracudas
an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe
Now keep in mind, all may be fine on a state of the art machine, but for those of us who have a house, car, have girlfriends, families etc... we can't always have the latest & greatest hardware.
But I guarantee that Johnny HardwareReviewer doesn't report frame rates with AV/Spyware software running, and if he does, he is probably ridiculed for having lower scores than Site x.
You just made me laugh so hard, I snorted milk out my nose.
Listen, I agree with you whole heartedly, but your gratuitous use of the F-word is a little disturbing. What if I were a 13 year old "script kiddie" or something.
/O.
Now fictitiously I think that you must swear to be KEWL on
I can just see it now though..
Political campaign adds in your favorite FPS. 8')
One add could go like this....
"Vote for me or else I'll kill you." Then later in the game you through non linear scripted action... could be "FORCED" to vote against him, or accidentally pull on a voter mashine handle and he could come out as a BOSS to beat.
Mmaybe some Special Sprays in CS (oops we got those allready)
How about a dell computers you have to access with certain keys in SYSTEM SHOCK 3000?
Better yet...
A Liandri sign with the face of a congressional candidate.
Some of it could be tasteful....
True, it might be weird seeing COKE in an INNKEEPERS inventory of goods during WOW, but think. Advertized goods will probably be uber kewl.
COKE
"allways refreshing"
3 min cooldown
must remain seated to drink
USE:
Restores 100 mana / second
If you continue drinking for 15 seconds get a "sugar rush"
that gives you +15 AGI but -10 STA.
Also causes you to "BURP" in chat!
Well said. That is primarily my belief as well. I don't think that the average person gives a hoot to have Outlook on their computers. 9.99 times out of 10 it's configured wrong anyway. People who have outlook to check pop 3 allways check the "delete e-mail from servers on download" box and then format their machine, and want me to get their e-mails back. When I show them ComCast, or GMail they are thrilled, and usually switch.
Now for scheduling, and Corporate stuff, I will have to give a nod to the previous poster. You can't beat Outlook. Not in the next 3 years anyway. They have INTENSE market penetration. The ability to look up contact info within an organization is AWESOME if a little difficult to use. and SCHEDULING is the primary function at my Corporation.