I'm waiting for someone to get an electric toothbrush to run Linux. Then he'll get WiFi working with it and modulate the pulses so that his skull resonates at the right frequencies to hear it for the purposes of streaming Ogg files directly into his brain.
Why would someone do it? Well, because no one else has and to get linked on Slashdot.
I bought HL when the internet gaming was handled by WON. There may have been an outage here and there, but it was not like Steam in that you could create your own LAN server and play with your friends.
Steam is a stupid idea. I'm not buying HL2 because of it.
The code is a horrible hack job though. Written by a college student. Not that all college student projects suck, it's just that usually the inexperienced create poor designs initially.
I mean, do we really think that the language is what it is because the men in the know sat down and wrote it all down and then descended on the masses with their crazy pronunciation rules and crazy backwards "e"'s?
I suppose I was unclear. When I was talking about it sucking, I was referring to the bastardization of words, not to the language changing.
You mean, in the same way that gun control has been so successful in New York, Chicago, and D.C.?
Precisely, I just thought it would be easier if I let someone else flesh out that aspect. I've been in some LONG political debates this week. I'm pretty much worn out.
Kelvin and Celsius degrees are actually the same amount. The point at which they start is the only difference. One is absolute zero and the other is the freezing point of water. So the change will be 11C.
Precisely why "11K" can be confusing. Why not just say 11C? They were trying to sound more dramatic.
We have "bling bling" and "ain't" in dictionaries. Marijuana is legally classified as a "narcotic", when in pharmacology only opiates can be narcotics.
The language changes. It may suck, but it's reality.
-Add a two second delay before every honk of the horn. -Reverse the turn signals. -Slowly, gradually move the driver's seat back. -Whenever the driver activates the AC, turn on the seat warmer.
Take Two or EA (yeah yeah, I know) to apply for and receive a patent for "Using a computer or other electronic instrument for the purpose of providing entertainment using sound, visual images or a combination thereof".
Soldier of Fortune stopped running those ads about 20 years ago after they got sued.
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Gee...I dunno. Regulations about that sort of thing, perhaps?
So the police who are ignoring the laws about mistreating and beating the shit out of innocent people are going to suddenly obey the law when it comes to not obscuring their faces and badge numbers when they do it?
The things that drive us crazy about managers are precisely the things that mundanes NEED from a manager.
For us it tends to be "Give me my duties and stay out of my way." For others, it doesn't seem to work that way.
When I was a retail manager at a computer store, the geeks would only come to me when they NEEDED help. The mundanes would come to me when they wanted to make sure that there was someone else to share the blame for their fuck-ups.
Thank God that your son turned out alright. His ordeal just shows that living viable children are being killed when women "exercise their choice" to murder them.
James Elgin Gill is listed in the Guinness book as the most premature baby to survive.
He was born 128 days premature. He was born more than 4 months early, so early that his eye lids were still fused shut.
Saving the mother's life is one thing, "Because I'm not ready for children" is bullshit.
What's so bad about partial birth abortion? It's primarily used for severe hydrocephalics. The fetus has a head the size of a basketball and is in no way viable.
Hydrocephaly in no way makes a child non-viable.
I was born with a large head. In fact, my head was so large that the doctors thought that I was hydrocephalic. They wanted to put a shunt into my brain to drain the excess fluid. My mother refused to allow it. It turns out that I wasn't hydrocephalic, I just had a really big head. For the first few months of my life the head circumference measurements put me in the 100th percentile. To this day, I still have a larger than usual head. Unless I shave my head bald, I can't wear baseball caps.
Your statement is a lie. There is never a medical necessity for the partial birth abortion. No doctor was willing to risk his or her professional reputation by saying that there was when the debate was before congress.
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Would the Principality of Sealand qualify for purchases?
LK
Do you think that a normal, law abiding citizen is suddenly going to turn criminal just because he has a gun? Sounds like a paranoid delusion to me.
Hoplophobes make that mistake often.
LK
You are aware that this is Slashdot, right?
I'm waiting for someone to get an electric toothbrush to run Linux. Then he'll get WiFi working with it and modulate the pulses so that his skull resonates at the right frequencies to hear it for the purposes of streaming Ogg files directly into his brain.
Why would someone do it? Well, because no one else has and to get linked on Slashdot.
LK
I've made plenty of LAN servers, simply press the "Create Server" button in the main menu of any game on Steam.
If the Steam Auth servers are down, or you're not connected to a LAN with internet access you can't log in to steam to create a LAN server.
When WON's auth servers went down, it didn't make any difference for LAN servers.
LK
It was working at about 7:00 PM Eastern for me.
LK
I bought HL when the internet gaming was handled by WON. There may have been an outage here and there, but it was not like Steam in that you could create your own LAN server and play with your friends.
Steam is a stupid idea. I'm not buying HL2 because of it.
LK
But that's Lois's Rainy Day Fund.
LK
The code is a horrible hack job though. Written by a college student. Not that all college student projects suck, it's just that usually the inexperienced create poor designs initially.
Like, um, the Linux Kernel?
LK
You can use it with MacOS, you can use it with Windows, you can use it with Linux and you can use it with *BSD.
LK
I mean, do we really think that the language is what it is because the men in the know sat down and wrote it all down and then descended on the masses with their crazy pronunciation rules and crazy backwards "e"'s?
I suppose I was unclear. When I was talking about it sucking, I was referring to the bastardization of words, not to the language changing.
LK
Give him a break with the "[sic]"s, he's Canadian. They don't know much aboot good English, eh?
LK
You mean, in the same way that gun control has been so successful in New York, Chicago, and D.C.?
Precisely, I just thought it would be easier if I let someone else flesh out that aspect. I've been in some LONG political debates this week. I'm pretty much worn out.
LK
Kelvin and Celsius degrees are actually the same amount. The point at which they start is the only difference. One is absolute zero and the other is the freezing point of water. So the change will be 11C.
Precisely why "11K" can be confusing. Why not just say 11C? They were trying to sound more dramatic.
LK
You are correct.
We have "bling bling" and "ain't" in dictionaries. Marijuana is legally classified as a "narcotic", when in pharmacology only opiates can be narcotics.
The language changes. It may suck, but it's reality.
LK
Why worry about cops first and not the (always) bad guys?
If they are abusing their powers the police are the bad guys.
LK
Let me get in on this.
-Add a two second delay before every honk of the horn.
-Reverse the turn signals.
-Slowly, gradually move the driver's seat back.
-Whenever the driver activates the AC, turn on the seat warmer.
LK
Take Two or EA (yeah yeah, I know) to apply for and receive a patent for "Using a computer or other electronic instrument for the purpose of providing entertainment using sound, visual images or a combination thereof".
LK
Soldier of Fortune stopped running those ads about 20 years ago after they got sued.
LK
Gee...I dunno. Regulations about that sort of thing, perhaps?
So the police who are ignoring the laws about mistreating and beating the shit out of innocent people are going to suddenly obey the law when it comes to not obscuring their faces and badge numbers when they do it?
LK
Porn sites tend to generate a lot of money if they are generating a lot of traffic, so for them transfer caps aren't that much of an issue.
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Republican.
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Yes they are when they have a detrimental effect on my life and the life of my children.
The engines in my vehicles weren't made in Chernobyl. Unless I'm burning tires for fuel, my vehicles aren't causing you any harm.
Should you be able to dump your raw sewage into the stream beside your house and not expect to have to pay for the cleanup?
Of course not. That's where I dump my motor oil.
LK
The things that drive us crazy about managers are precisely the things that mundanes NEED from a manager.
For us it tends to be "Give me my duties and stay out of my way." For others, it doesn't seem to work that way.
When I was a retail manager at a computer store, the geeks would only come to me when they NEEDED help. The mundanes would come to me when they wanted to make sure that there was someone else to share the blame for their fuck-ups.
I'm not sure what to suggest, but good luck.
LK
Thank God that your son turned out alright. His ordeal just shows that living viable children are being killed when women "exercise their choice" to murder them.
James Elgin Gill is listed in the Guinness book as the most premature baby to survive.
He was born 128 days premature. He was born more than 4 months early, so early that his eye lids were still fused shut.
Saving the mother's life is one thing, "Because I'm not ready for children" is bullshit.
LK
What's so bad about partial birth abortion? It's primarily used for severe hydrocephalics. The fetus has a head the size of a basketball and is in no way viable.
Hydrocephaly in no way makes a child non-viable.
I was born with a large head. In fact, my head was so large that the doctors thought that I was hydrocephalic. They wanted to put a shunt into my brain to drain the excess fluid. My mother refused to allow it. It turns out that I wasn't hydrocephalic, I just had a really big head. For the first few months of my life the head circumference measurements put me in the 100th percentile. To this day, I still have a larger than usual head. Unless I shave my head bald, I can't wear baseball caps.
Your statement is a lie. There is never a medical necessity for the partial birth abortion. No doctor was willing to risk his or her professional reputation by saying that there was when the debate was before congress.
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