Bollocks. AMPS roaming isn't even close to what GSM provides. I grew up in California and I remember driving acros the US in the late 1980's and having to call the providers in every state to ask if I could roam. This ain't roaming. With GSM I am reachable in _any_ Western (and most Eastern) European countries with no interaction on my part. True roaming.
Try to keep it within the same decade please?
Anywhere I go in the entire US (barring of course a very few backwater areas) my $50 Dual Band Sprint PCS phone works. Sometimes it is on an analog network, but most places it is digital, and it works everywhere.
"Why, when I was in europe in the 60s my satellite phone was TERRIBLE!!!"
Same argument.
Well there is nothing wrong with investigating the universe. That wasn't my point. I was just trying to help the original poster understand how in the face of scientific evidence, there are those that believe in a 6 day creation that happened somewhere around 6000 years ago (6000 years are supposedly calculated by adding up the geneology in the Bible)
Ok... this debuted in the 60s. We've had the technology for quite some time now, but I've yet to see any marketing for...
The Shoe Phone.
You know what I'm talking about, the kind of a shoe that makes you do a funny dance when it rings, that has the rotary dial in the heel?
Think of the convenience! People are always losing thier cell phones in restaurants, theaters, etc. but who loses a shoe? You could have your pager in the other shoe! The only problem I could see is accidently stepping in dog poo before you get a call, now that would be messy...
"Please hold, I have shoe waiting... " - Maxwell Smart
Or is it that a 0 day old newborn thrust into the wilderness will surely die quickly, whereas a full grown man has a chance.
Certainly you can't mean that a 0 day old universe could possibly be thought to support life of any kind?
The theory of many Christian Scientists who support 6 day creationism is that God created everything with age because otherwise it would not survive. The Bible even explains dinosaurs and the ilk, prehistoric record, etc.
I don't know which sounds more absurd, the idea that there is a supreme being that created everything, or the idea that everything that has ever happened is the product of a string of unlikely random occurances.
Of course, that has little to do with the original thread, as I said in another post, I do agree with the decision to teach Evolution in public schools.
Let me preface this by first stating that I am a Christian, lest there be any confusion.
I support the decision to teach scientific evolution in public schools, and to not teach the biblical creation whatsoever. If you are a christian, ask yourself how you would feel if I wanted them to teach that the world is actually carried on the back of four elephants who are standing on a giant turtle? I have as much proof of that as Creationism has of it's doctrine.
So here's the middle ground, a scientific proposal that this *could* be how the earth and life was created. It's unbiased, its just theories.
And if you don't believe it, well thats your ball of wax. But this is the public education system, which means that Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Wiccans, Atheists and Agnostics are going to have children that go there. The public education system doesn't need this kind of bias.
If you TRULY don't want your children taught evolution as fact, then might I suggest private schooling where your dollar tells them what to teach, and not some legislator.
I applaud the citizens of Kansas for making this decision. I imagine there were many enlightened "Christians" that voted in favor of Evolution being taught, as I would, if I lived in Kansas.
Master of Magic was fun for a while, it was like Civ with the interesting twist of adding an "underworld". My biggest problem is that disk 5 of my MoM installation got corrupted and my 386 crashed once, leaving me gameless. Never have found another working copy.
Master of Orion I blew a lot of time on too. Building your own ships was fun.
These are all Microprose hits, another Microprose deal I haven't seen mentioned is X-com: Ufo Defense.
Man I wasted so much time on that game... Defending the earth from aliens. Heh. My favorite thing in the world was to take over the mind of an alien, make him arm a grenade and have him walk to where his buddies were. (it was kinda a bug).
Like Hi guys, BOOM! hehehehe... sometimes I'm sick that way.
I mean, no game since the original mule has managed to master it's simplistic sophistication.
You wanted to win? You wanted to beat those evil mechanoid computer players? You had to compete, and cooperate all at the same time....
It's a simple sweet taste, at the same time while detesting your competition, (How DARE you take that river plot! I hit the button first!!) you had to make sure you didn't completely kill them, unbalancing the whole community and ending in a low score.
You think dimplomacy in AlphaCentauri is good? Ha, nothing beats cold hard capitalism. Buy high, sell low. But as with most great games, the concept was really easy and simple to learn, but difficult to master.
Just pray you have the good fortune of your mule winning a beuty contest...
I agree with the guy who says Bruce would be better for Die Flader Mouse.. or however you spell that.. hehe... others I'd like to see:
Tim Curry: Chairface The guy who plays the squinty eyed guy on third rock from the son: Sewer Urchin John Cusak: Dinosaur Niel Demi Moore: American Maid
Heh, I guess I should watch TV again then. I'm just an internet addict, I sold my TV to buy another computer so my wife would quit bugging me to let her use my computer all the time.
Quite honestly I heard this story first hand, in college, from an actual african storyteller. Now maybe it's been changed around and bastardized into something like that, although that would be the first I've heard of that.
We're not making fun of end users, we're laughing at the things people say and do. Can't you just relax and laugh?
I personally laugh all the time at things my users do... some of the things have absolutely nothing to do with the PCs really.
Once, for instance, I was called to our warehouse to fix a printer, and when I got there, I died laughing. The printer was indeed broken. It did not help the printer that someone had crashed one of our golf carts through the wall and smashed the thing to bits.
Sometimes, people do goofy things, and we're not laughing at them, we're laughing at the goofy things people do.
Off Topic Example:
An African storyteller once told me the story of her mother. Her mother had recently moved to the united states at the age of around 60 I believe and wasn't all too familair with United States customs. Sooner or later she went to the Gynecologist to have a PAP test done (a gynecological exam to test for cervical cancer) and was very nervous about having to have a man look at her in that area, even if it was a doctor.
Well, she didn't want to embarass herself, so she made special effort to clean the area, and even sprayed deoderant on the pubic hair, just to make sure it didn't stink.
When she got to the Ob/Gyn office, she sripped and laid back on the table just like the nurse had told her to. The doctor came in, took one look under the sheet and burst out laughing and ran out of the room. Horribly embarrased, the old woman got dressed real fast and ran outside crying.
Her daughter asked her, what was the matter?
She explained what had happened, including the part about spraying deoderant on to make sure it didn't stink.
"Mother, we don't have any spray deoderant. You used my daughters 'Green Glitter' hair spray."
: Okay, so maybe it looses a bit without the accent...
You obviously aren't really a geek then. You don't deserve to be feasting your eyes on this website. Of course the Internet is Sexually arousing....
Why, just thinking of all that bandwidth makes me hot... all those, "Pipes" *shudder*, the "OC12", *yeah baby!* "Peering Points", *Ahhhh* "HYPERtext TRANSFER protocol", *Ooooohhhh* "Finger", *Give it to me baby* and who can forget, the "Serial Interface". *Mmmmmmmm*
Why, by insinuatiing that the Internet is NOT sexy you've just shown us all how much of a poser you really are! I wave my dongle in your general direction.
No one may ever read this comment, I suppose it won't really matter if they do. But as I sit here typing, I am perplexed at the outrage that the geek community has against religion.
I believe that God created the earth, all of the animals on the earth, and that God created humans. You may call me a "Neanderthal" if you wish, but the fact remains that those are my beliefs. I can view the world, in all it's glory, and see the works of God on the earth. I can not fathom how this world could be created without the help of God.
Having said that, I feel people ought to be able to make these choices about their lives without ridicule from their peers. Saying these people are stuck in the Dark Ages because they don't believe something as absurd as Humans evolving from Primordal Goo is silly.
Evolution is a theory, Creationism is a belief. If you choose not to teach a theory in school that has not been proven, that's up to you. If you choose to teach a belief, that too is up to you. Intolerance seems to be on the side of the so called "enlightened" group on this issue.
Were you using a non-intel chipset on your motherboard? I remember having some compatibility problems running the i740 chipset on my Tyan 1590s Trinity motherboard, which used the VIA MVP3 chipset. They released a ton of patches trying to make the video card work properly, the patch version 2.8 actually ran decent (the latest patch crashed my computer bad). Finally gave in and the other day got a cheap Voodoo3 3000 and threw it in there. No more compatibility problems, and tons better framerate anyhow. Now back to slaying Young Kodiaks...
Slashdot forms it's own country and declares war on www.microsoft.com, www.aol.com and www.robsucks.com . (the Axis) After a huge bloody war in which the casualty numbers have to be written in scientific notation (the war is held in Quake 3 arena). It is decided that Hemos is to be Earth Czar. Anyone calling themselves MEEPT is hunted down and clubbed with salami.
Of course the Internet falls under the US Constitution. After all, Al Gore invented the Internet. If he invented it, he should be able to tell us what to do with it. Even if it is watching trees grow via live videofeed. Hmm, is treefuckers.orgasm registered yet?
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Well there is nothing wrong with investigating the universe. That wasn't my point. I was just trying to help the original poster understand how in the face of scientific evidence, there are those that believe in a 6 day creation that happened somewhere around 6000 years ago (6000 years are supposedly calculated by adding up the geneology in the Bible)
Ok... this debuted in the 60s. We've had the technology for quite some time now, but I've yet to see any marketing for...
The Shoe Phone.
You know what I'm talking about, the kind of a shoe that makes you do a funny dance when it rings, that has the rotary dial in the heel?
Think of the convenience! People are always losing thier cell phones in restaurants, theaters, etc. but who loses a shoe? You could have your pager in the other shoe! The only problem I could see is accidently stepping in dog poo before you get a call, now that would be messy...
"Please hold, I have shoe waiting... " - Maxwell Smart
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Unless I'm reading it wrong all the article is saying is that some business are reading the license agreement wrong.
Microsoft is not insisting that people pay twice for the OS.
Its just that Open License stuff microsoft sells, some people are misunderstanding it, thats all.
This news isn't slashdot worthy, IMO. (a bunch of idiots misreading the license agreement, sha...)
And I thought typing on notebook keyboards with my fat fingers was rough...
Only if you percieve it such.
Or is it that a 0 day old newborn thrust into the wilderness will surely die quickly, whereas a full grown man has a chance.
Certainly you can't mean that a 0 day old universe could possibly be thought to support life of any kind?
The theory of many Christian Scientists who support 6 day creationism is that God created everything with age because otherwise it would not survive. The Bible even explains dinosaurs and the ilk, prehistoric record, etc.
I don't know which sounds more absurd, the idea that there is a supreme being that created everything, or the idea that everything that has ever happened is the product of a string of unlikely random occurances.
Of course, that has little to do with the original thread, as I said in another post, I do agree with the decision to teach Evolution in public schools.
that bugtraq lists more bugs for linux... is the fact that we like to keep NT bugs to ourselves.
Bob: "Dang, the NT server crashed again!"
You: "Wow, that thing is unstable, we should replace it with linux"
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat...
Let me preface this by first stating that I am a Christian, lest there be any confusion.
I support the decision to teach scientific evolution in public schools, and to not teach the biblical creation whatsoever. If you are a christian, ask yourself how you would feel if I wanted them to teach that the world is actually carried on the back of four elephants who are standing on a giant turtle? I have as much proof of that as Creationism has of it's doctrine.
So here's the middle ground, a scientific proposal that this *could* be how the earth and life was created. It's unbiased, its just theories.
And if you don't believe it, well thats your ball of wax. But this is the public education system, which means that Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Wiccans, Atheists and Agnostics are going to have children that go there. The public education system doesn't need this kind of bias.
If you TRULY don't want your children taught evolution as fact, then might I suggest private schooling where your dollar tells them what to teach, and not some legislator.
I applaud the citizens of Kansas for making this decision. I imagine there were many enlightened "Christians" that voted in favor of Evolution being taught, as I would, if I lived in Kansas.
Actually, it is the theory of "Apparent Age".
Adam was a full grown man on the day he was born, so why not a fully developed universe on the day it was created?
Such finite thinking from otherwise brilliant minds... tsk.
Please quote where in the US Constitution or in the Declaration of Independance where it is required to have a Separation of Church and State.
Master of Magic was fun for a while, it was like Civ with the interesting twist of adding an "underworld". My biggest problem is that disk 5 of my MoM installation got corrupted and my 386 crashed once, leaving me gameless. Never have found another working copy.
Master of Orion I blew a lot of time on too. Building your own ships was fun.
These are all Microprose hits, another Microprose deal I haven't seen mentioned is X-com: Ufo Defense.
Man I wasted so much time on that game... Defending the earth from aliens. Heh. My favorite thing in the world was to take over the mind of an alien, make him arm a grenade and have him walk to where his buddies were. (it was kinda a bug).
Like Hi guys, BOOM! hehehehe... sometimes I'm sick that way.
M.U.L.E.
Those who know it will know what I mean.
I mean, no game since the original mule has managed to master it's simplistic sophistication.
You wanted to win? You wanted to beat those evil mechanoid computer players? You had to compete, and cooperate all at the same time....
It's a simple sweet taste, at the same time while detesting your competition, (How DARE you take that river plot! I hit the button first!!) you had to make sure you didn't completely kill them, unbalancing the whole community and ending in a low score.
You think dimplomacy in AlphaCentauri is good? Ha, nothing beats cold hard capitalism. Buy high, sell low. But as with most great games, the concept was really easy and simple to learn, but difficult to master.
Just pray you have the good fortune of your mule winning a beuty contest...
I agree with the guy who says Bruce would be better for Die Flader Mouse .. or however you spell that .. hehe... others I'd like to see:
Tim Curry: Chairface
The guy who plays the squinty eyed guy on third rock from the son: Sewer Urchin
John Cusak: Dinosaur Niel
Demi Moore: American Maid
And he's bald and EVIL looking! Perfect for a CEO of microsoft.
BALDIES UNITE! WE'LL HAVE THE WORLD!!!
DOH!
Acronyms curse my head. I'm not sure what RSAC has to do with this.
My baby was crying all night last night, I got 2 hours of sleep.
3 RSAC execs just had heart attacks.
434 RSAC lawyers just had orgasms.
Heh, I guess I should watch TV again then. I'm just an internet addict, I sold my TV to buy another computer so my wife would quit bugging me to let her use my computer all the time.
Becha that wasn't on the Internet Addict survey.
Quite honestly I heard this story first hand, in college, from an actual african storyteller. Now maybe it's been changed around and bastardized into something like that, although that would be the first I've heard of that.
We're not making fun of end users, we're laughing at the things people say and do. Can't you just relax and laugh?
I personally laugh all the time at things my users do... some of the things have absolutely nothing to do with the PCs really.
Once, for instance, I was called to our warehouse to fix a printer, and when I got there, I died laughing. The printer was indeed broken. It did not help the printer that someone had crashed one of our golf carts through the wall and smashed the thing to bits.
Sometimes, people do goofy things, and we're not laughing at them, we're laughing at the goofy things people do.
Off Topic Example:
An African storyteller once told me the story of her mother. Her mother had recently moved to the united states at the age of around 60 I believe and wasn't all too familair with United States customs. Sooner or later she went to the Gynecologist to have a PAP test done (a gynecological exam to test for cervical cancer) and was very nervous about having to have a man look at her in that area, even if it was a doctor.
Well, she didn't want to embarass herself, so she made special effort to clean the area, and even sprayed deoderant on the pubic hair, just to make sure it didn't stink.
When she got to the Ob/Gyn office, she sripped and laid back on the table just like the nurse had told her to. The doctor came in, took one look under the sheet and burst out laughing and ran out of the room. Horribly embarrased, the old woman got dressed real fast and ran outside crying.
Her daughter asked her, what was the matter?
She explained what had happened, including the part about spraying deoderant on to make sure it didn't stink.
"Mother, we don't have any spray deoderant. You used my daughters 'Green Glitter' hair spray."
: Okay, so maybe it looses a bit without the accent...
You obviously aren't really a geek then. You don't deserve to be feasting your eyes on this website. Of course the Internet is Sexually arousing....
Why, just thinking of all that bandwidth makes me hot... all those, "Pipes" *shudder*, the "OC12", *yeah baby!* "Peering Points", *Ahhhh* "HYPERtext TRANSFER protocol", *Ooooohhhh* "Finger", *Give it to me baby* and who can forget, the "Serial Interface". *Mmmmmmmm*
Why, by insinuatiing that the Internet is NOT sexy you've just shown us all how much of a poser you really are! I wave my dongle in your general direction.
No one may ever read this comment, I suppose it won't really matter if they do. But as I sit here typing, I am perplexed at the outrage that the geek community has against religion.
I believe that God created the earth, all of the animals on the earth, and that God created humans. You may call me a "Neanderthal" if you wish, but the fact remains that those are my beliefs. I can view the world, in all it's glory, and see the works of God on the earth. I can not fathom how this world could be created without the help of God.
Having said that, I feel people ought to be able to make these choices about their lives without ridicule from their peers. Saying these people are stuck in the Dark Ages because they don't believe something as absurd as Humans evolving from Primordal Goo is silly.
Evolution is a theory, Creationism is a belief. If you choose not to teach a theory in school that has not been proven, that's up to you. If you choose to teach a belief, that too is up to you. Intolerance seems to be on the side of the so called "enlightened" group on this issue.
Were you using a non-intel chipset on your motherboard? I remember having some compatibility problems running the i740 chipset on my Tyan 1590s Trinity motherboard, which used the VIA MVP3 chipset. They released a ton of patches trying to make the video card work properly, the patch version 2.8 actually ran decent (the latest patch crashed my computer bad). Finally gave in and the other day got a cheap Voodoo3 3000 and threw it in there. No more compatibility problems, and tons better framerate anyhow. Now back to slaying Young Kodiaks...
"Mr. Burns, I have the report you requested about our Y2K compliance."
"Excellent! What does it say?"
"Run for your lives."
Slashdot forms it's own country and declares war on www.microsoft.com, www.aol.com and www.robsucks.com . (the Axis) After a huge bloody war in which the casualty numbers have to be written in scientific notation (the war is held in Quake 3 arena). It is decided that Hemos is to be Earth Czar. Anyone calling themselves MEEPT is hunted down and clubbed with salami.
Of course the Internet falls under the US Constitution. After all, Al Gore invented the Internet. If he invented it, he should be able to tell us what to do with it. Even if it is watching trees grow via live videofeed. Hmm, is treefuckers.orgasm registered yet?
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Vote Libertarian!!!