Weird, it was moving along pretty good at the start, strange. Oh well, did anybody ever read it for anything but a peak at the cute girls any ways?:-D Quite frankly I now just jump directly to the websites of Japanese Artists, saves me from the whole entire cultural intermediary thing.:-D
Oh yes, and yaah! Cpt Kangarooski replied to me! I can remember reading your comments for years now!:-o Considering how long you have been around/. I am surprised that you have not taken up with the journal system yet, you could earn quite a following rather quickly.
? You mean besides biking ~6mi a day walking ~2-3 miles, spending at least 5-6 hours in one of the local forest reserves a week, going to college and working a job?
Nope, don't get out much.
I do type fast though.:-D
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I have heard of Penny Arcade and PvPonline;
Neither of which is nearly as adorable as MegaTokyo has been at times, nor nearly as empathetic to Nerds as a whole. I mean sure Penny Arcade is kick ass in a "Well FUCK them all!" kind of a way, but MegaTokyo captures the whole entire "Well gee that sucks" aspect of being a Nerd.
I remember when Megatokyo was first opening, and I still on occasion listen to Kim Justice
I have not read the comic in around a year, (I left off in the point where the dude was just starting to working in the store as a mascot) but from what I remember it was Kick Ass.:-D Just got bored waiting for the story line to come along, heh, I gotta check it out again one of these days before it goes titsup.com ^_^
Why is it more depressing for a "suit" to decide a border than it is for people to die over it? Go pencil pushers on this one... -jon
Not easily defendable for one thing, always nice to have logical reasons for placing a boarder someplace. That is actually the line that kind of ticked me off, boarders should be placed in logical locations, not just willy nilly.
What is special about Four Corners is exactly that there is nothing special. The mid-US states are amazing in the political undertone. Look, those borders were drawn by some guys with a pencil and straightedge. No natural fortification. No concern for defensible borders. No historical or trade mandates. What a wonderful thing to break free of that mindset! Those lines were drawn for administrative convenience only.
That makes it seem even more depressing, some suit got to decide how things work. . . oh great. ..
No logical reason for it to be like that, 'broke free' from the sensicle mind set,
I'm just throwing that out there because a lot of people with DUI, indecent exposure, drug possession, etc... run-ins from their teen & college years will have an unfair disadvantage for the rest of their life because of the fanciful association potential employeers make between a police record and future job performance.
I don't know, seems rather relevant to me. . . . If you where getting wasted all throughout college fair odds are you were not learning (or at least retaining.:D ) as much as the next applicant who managed to stay at least a bit more sober. . ..
Also, AFAIK, crimes (unless reaaaaly serious) from before a person is 18 get locked up once the person turns 18, slate wiped clean and all.
Yes, you've used "eh" correctly. It's most often used to transform a statement ("American beer tastes like cow piss.") into a question ("American beer tastes like cow piss, eh?").
I am an American, born and raised, and I had that habit for maaany years in my writing. It was beginning to get rather annoying, since I was seemingly ending every other sentence with it. (once again this is in my writing only.)
I do not know what I read that caused me to start doing that, I typically pick up the mannerisms of whatever I am reading at the time.
Sad thing is, people who do the HQ Manga scans for fan translations and pirating have excellent experience in the field and touch up each image individually, often times spending weeks or months on each issue.
The results are fabulous looking originals that are then mangled by idiots who recompress them to 30KB JPEGs so they can shove them on their Geocities account. . ..
Good pirated books are simular too, there are a fair number of groups of people who translate books into PDF formate illegaly, and the better groups do a darn good job at it. Of course the lower quality groups, err, suck. A lot.:(
Helloooo, giant six foot robot walzing around tearing down trees, how the hell is mentioning the closeless of this to any number of dark sci-fi stories a troll?
Or that pumping oil from the ground takes MORE energy than we get out of the oil?
Hello Mr "I can't think back any further then my ass."
How is THIS one for you.
Energy gone into producing oil:
Dinosaurs born, big ass trees grew, dinosaurs ate trees, died, turned to oil. We pump oil out, burn.
Now then, you have entropy going all to hell throughout there, you have the energy used up by the trees, by the dinosaurs, by the dinosaurs EATING the trees, and so forth. Energy IS used and spread about, there is NEVER A NET GAIN IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SHIT THE UNIVERSE HAS TO PLAY AROUND WITH.
Just because YOUR sorry ass did not have to sweat to make something work does not mean that somebody (or something) else did not use up the energy!
Considering that these things burn some kind of fuel, and that they harvest wood which can also be used as a fuel (or turned into methyl alcohol to create fuel), what do you suppose the ratio of fuel spent to fuel harvested is for these puppies?
I'd bet it leans heavily to one side, specifically the spent one.
Uh, NO FUCKING SHIT DUDE
It is called entropy, if you find a way around it tell the rest of us, k?
EVERYTHING in life, let me repeat that, EVERYTHING in life takes more energy then you get out of it, logging included. You never get more then what you put in.
Mankind is an pro-entropic entity, we help the universe along to its eventual heat death! (or else we couldn't exist. ^_^ )
That is it, mankind has officaly gone to f*cking far.
Yee freakin gads folks, this is like something out of a science fiction horror movie, big ass machines going around eating up trees? Well fuuuck, all we need is some slave labourers to be pushing it along rather then using gas and we'd have ourselves a nice dim bleak ass future.
some asshole in engineering is using the f*cking water to cool the circuit boards.
I kid yee not.
(I was a bit shocked when I first found that one out myself)
Their solution? Just replace shit, all the time. Same thing with various engine parts, also salt water cooled, doh.
Mind you there is a perfectly good fresh water cooling system also in the ferries, but as stated above, some dipso decided to for apparently random no good reasons, use salt water cooling on valuable and vulnerable parts.
Some badly-compiled programs might be hard-coded to look for libGL.so in nonstandard positions
Thankfully Window's has this handy little thing called a "path" statement that allows me to shove a library, dll, ocx, or whatever else, on any damn well mappable device, drive, location, or anything else that can store bits and bytes, and programs won't know the difference.
I haven't gotten a "DLL not found" error in years, well, except for when I haven't installed something.:-D
People have to standardize on crap, the Mac darn nearly one-ups even the PC for this one, yeesh.
Though in all fairness, many programs on Windows are responsible for carrying along their own GL drivers and such, and for a long time many even went so far as to carry along an installer for DirectX just to make sure everything ran smoothly, or at least ran at all.:-D
Tell me, when was the last time 2 world powers took up arms against each other?
What world powers? Considering that for most of the 20th century post WW2 there where only two superpowers who where scared crudless of each other, there was not exactly much opportunity for massive warfare.
Now genocides murderers and tyrants on the other hand. . . . all, technology has given them ample opportunities to work horrors upon society.
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Weird, it was moving along pretty good at the start, strange. Oh well, did anybody ever read it for anything but a peak at the cute girls any ways? :-D Quite frankly I now just jump directly to the websites of Japanese Artists, saves me from the whole entire cultural intermediary thing. :-D
:-o Considering how long you have been around /. I am surprised that you have not taken up with the journal system yet, you could earn quite a following rather quickly.
Oh yes, and yaah! Cpt Kangarooski replied to me! I can remember reading your comments for years now!
You've got to be kidding. com2kid's id number is about 150,000 which means its at least three years old.
I came aboard
? You mean besides biking ~6mi a day walking ~2-3 miles, spending at least 5-6 hours in one of the local forest reserves a week, going to college and working a job?
:-D
Nope, don't get out much.
I do type fast though.
I have heard of Penny Arcade and PvPonline;
Neither of which is nearly as adorable as MegaTokyo has been at times, nor nearly as empathetic to Nerds as a whole. I mean sure Penny Arcade is kick ass in a "Well FUCK them all!" kind of a way, but MegaTokyo captures the whole entire "Well gee that sucks" aspect of being a Nerd.
Bob and George
8-bit Theater
Movie Comics
Kick ass.
I remember when Megatokyo was first opening, and I still on occasion listen to Kim Justice
:-D Just got bored waiting for the story line to come along, heh, I gotta check it out again one of these days before it goes titsup.com ^_^
I have not read the comic in around a year, (I left off in the point where the dude was just starting to working in the store as a mascot) but from what I remember it was Kick Ass.
- Do I really sound smarter if I use big words that poorly describe the idea I'm trying to convey?
*Raises hand* I'm all for it!Sadly yes, if the idea you're trying to convey is "Let's go mug some rich people".
Doesn't seem to keep anybody from becoming President, right? Ergo, it shouldn't matter in a job interview.
Your daddy ever head of the CIA, you got relatives in high government positions? If not. . . .
Why is it more depressing for a "suit" to decide a border than it is for people to die over it? Go pencil pushers on this one...
-jon
Not easily defendable for one thing, always nice to have logical reasons for placing a boarder someplace. That is actually the line that kind of ticked me off, boarders should be placed in logical locations, not just willy nilly.
What is special about Four Corners is exactly that there is nothing special. The mid-US states are amazing in the political undertone. Look, those borders were drawn by some guys with a pencil and straightedge. No natural fortification. No concern for defensible borders. No historical or trade mandates. What a wonderful thing to break free of that mindset! Those lines were drawn for administrative convenience only.
.
That makes it seem even more depressing, some suit got to decide how things work. . . oh great. .
No logical reason for it to be like that, 'broke free' from the sensicle mind set,
must be middle management.
- I'm just throwing that out there because a lot of people with DUI, indecent exposure, drug possession, etc... run-ins from their teen & college years will have an unfair disadvantage for the rest of their life because of the fanciful association potential employeers make between a police record and future job performance.
I don't know, seems rather relevant to me. . . . If you where getting wasted all throughout college fair odds are you were not learning (or at least retaining.Also, AFAIK, crimes (unless reaaaaly serious) from before a person is 18 get locked up once the person turns 18, slate wiped clean and all.
Yes, you've used "eh" correctly. It's most often used to transform a statement ("American beer tastes like cow piss.") into a question ("American beer tastes like cow piss, eh?").
I am an American, born and raised, and I had that habit for maaany years in my writing. It was beginning to get rather annoying, since I was seemingly ending every other sentence with it. (once again this is in my writing only.)
I do not know what I read that caused me to start doing that, I typically pick up the mannerisms of whatever I am reading at the time.
Sad thing is, people who do the HQ Manga scans for fan translations and pirating have excellent experience in the field and touch up each image individually, often times spending weeks or months on each issue.
.
:(
The results are fabulous looking originals that are then mangled by idiots who recompress them to 30KB JPEGs so they can shove them on their Geocities account. . .
Good pirated books are simular too, there are a fair number of groups of people who translate books into PDF formate illegaly, and the better groups do a darn good job at it. Of course the lower quality groups, err, suck. A lot.
Helloooo, giant six foot robot walzing around tearing down trees, how the hell is mentioning the closeless of this to any number of dark sci-fi stories a troll?
All of these processes that acquire materials for energy production must necessarily acquire more energy than it expends,
And I am arguing that it only 'aquires' more energy if you only look back short term! Looking back long term there is 0 net gain.
Or that pumping oil from the ground takes MORE energy than we get out of the oil?
Hello Mr "I can't think back any further then my ass."
How is THIS one for you.
Energy gone into producing oil:
Dinosaurs born, big ass trees grew, dinosaurs ate trees, died, turned to oil. We pump oil out, burn.
Now then, you have entropy going all to hell throughout there, you have the energy used up by the trees, by the dinosaurs, by the dinosaurs EATING the trees, and so forth. Energy IS used and spread about, there is NEVER A NET GAIN IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF SHIT THE UNIVERSE HAS TO PLAY AROUND WITH.
Just because YOUR sorry ass did not have to sweat to make something work does not mean that somebody (or something) else did not use up the energy!
- Considering that these things burn some kind of fuel, and that they harvest wood which can also be used as a fuel (or turned into methyl alcohol to create fuel), what do you suppose the ratio of fuel spent to fuel harvested is for these puppies?
Uh, NO FUCKING SHIT DUDEI'd bet it leans heavily to one side, specifically the spent one.
It is called entropy, if you find a way around it tell the rest of us, k?
EVERYTHING in life, let me repeat that, EVERYTHING in life takes more energy then you get out of it, logging included. You never get more then what you put in.
Mankind is an pro-entropic entity, we help the universe along to its eventual heat death! (or else we couldn't exist. ^_^ )
That is it, mankind has officaly gone to f*cking far.
Yee freakin gads folks, this is like something out of a science fiction horror movie, big ass machines going around eating up trees? Well fuuuck, all we need is some slave labourers to be pushing it along rather then using gas and we'd have ourselves a nice dim bleak ass future.
I repeat.
fuck
Doesn't Photoshop use some sort of lossless compression on images?
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Indeed it does, rather nice compression to.
Or do you work with images that are many megapixels big and many layers deep?
Photoshop, not hard to do. You know how well any sort of gradiates or smooth colors compress? Hint, not well at all!
Take a 1600x1200 high quality photograph, compress to PNG, notice issues? Ok, shove a few dozen of those on top of each other and . .
Then there are what the filters can do *shivers* Heh.
Photoshop files can get well over 20MB easily, hell over 100MB if actual high quality artist level work is being done!
I have gotten Photoshop images that are easily a few hundred megabytes in size, and that was just from scanned photographs!!!
Puget Sound, salt water;
some asshole in engineering is using the f*cking water to cool the circuit boards.
I kid yee not.
(I was a bit shocked when I first found that one out myself)
Their solution? Just replace shit, all the time. Same thing with various engine parts, also salt water cooled, doh.
Mind you there is a perfectly good fresh water cooling system also in the ferries, but as stated above, some dipso decided to for apparently random no good reasons, use salt water cooling on valuable and vulnerable parts.
Oh Joy.
The requisite link for Windows Users /. is going to SOOOO mangle that.
A simpler version of that link but some commercial software will also listed with that link.
Some badly-compiled programs might be hard-coded to look for libGL.so in nonstandard positions
:-D
:-D
Thankfully Window's has this handy little thing called a "path" statement that allows me to shove a library, dll, ocx, or whatever else, on any damn well mappable device, drive, location, or anything else that can store bits and bytes, and programs won't know the difference.
I haven't gotten a "DLL not found" error in years, well, except for when I haven't installed something.
People have to standardize on crap, the Mac darn nearly one-ups even the PC for this one, yeesh.
Though in all fairness, many programs on Windows are responsible for carrying along their own GL drivers and such, and for a long time many even went so far as to carry along an installer for DirectX just to make sure everything ran smoothly, or at least ran at all.
Why do people make this mistake over and over?
/. grammar nazis come at them.
/. and that there is no such word as 'than' in real life. . . .
Because it is NOT taught in schools and people do not even hear about it until the
I am seriously beginning to think that this 'issue' only exists on
Life in prison!!
Tell me, when was the last time 2 world powers took up arms against each other?
What world powers? Considering that for most of the 20th century post WW2 there where only two superpowers who where scared crudless of each other, there was not exactly much opportunity for massive warfare.
Now genocides murderers and tyrants on the other hand. . . . all, technology has given them ample opportunities to work horrors upon society.