but for others who suffer from more serious illness it makes life bearable, or helps them to handle side effects from chemo therapy or weight loss from aids.
Of course it also screws people up and has a nice habit of reducing inhibitions. (before smoking pot most people are smart enough to know better then to smoke pot and drink, after smoking pot that same person likely doesn't care anymore. oops)
I think his bitter rant about politics should certainly suggest this theme to anyone. It seems fairly obvious that he holds the beliefs that he holds because he personally at some point was screwed over by some such politics, rather than by objective observations of the system.
True true. Politics suck, we all know that, and damned nearly the ONLY thing keeping it going is that everybody is afraid to act all at once to put a stop to it.:(
Remember committees are made up of individual members, often times individuals who bitch about how inefficient committees are. . ..
(I remember in HS being picked at random to go to the school counsel thing to represent my class. When asked if there where any further topics to be brought up I said "yes, I think that this entire stupid group should be permanently dismissed and that all you little pee brained sheep should go out and shoot yourselves." They requested that I not return ever again.:-D )
Does this not have the implication that there would be nothing very terrible about rounding up large numbers of the "vast herd" and painlessly slaughtering them?
This would be bad because. . . . ?
As long as it was done in a fair and just manner with no prejudices or false discriminations applied to the situation, I would see damn nearly no moral or ethical problems with this.
Unfortunately most people are a tad wee bit offended by the idea (not that I can blame them, history has a habit of f*cking up such systems, ick. Killing smart people for racial / religious / political reasons == baaaad! ), so I end up promoting less serious measures like birth control instead.
(yes I believe the earth has a few to many people on it, like a few billion to many people. 2 or 2.5 less would be wonderful.:-D )
yep, cause that's sure been working for the Alpha, Mozilla and the *nix desktop so far... Face it, no matter how annoying some advertising is - it's impossible for any company to achieve a decent amount of success without it.
Err;
*cough* *cough*
AMD.
Thaaaaaank you.
For many years (err, months? whatever, fiscal quarters or something like that) after the K7 line of CPUs where first introduced, OEMs refused to carry them, but AMD continued to sell them. How? Word of mouth. People got the word out, a ton. Entire labs where stocked full of AMD x86 CPUs thanks to people having read reviews of the product online and looking at the price/performance graphs of the product. And that was without a decent motherboard choice to boot. . . . heh. Now that the K7 line of x86 CPUs has a wonderful and diverse line of motherboards behind it running on a wide range and combination of chipsets, nobody can imagine an Intel only CPU world again with AMD just barely playing on the sidelines.
if through the magic of online ordering they have the potential to convert a sale right now, why waste ad budget with branding type ads?
And thus I say in reply:
Duuuude, if I am out researching how the hell to get rid of an awful headache, YOU THINK I GIVE A RATS ARSE ABOUT BUYING SOME STUPID PRODUCT TO BE DELIVERED TO ME IN 2-6 WEEKS?
Uh, no.
If I am looking up information for a report, do you think I am really interested in purchasing online e-cards at $2.95 a pop? Uh, no, (plenty of free e-card providers still left around, why would I pay for one?)
Heck, I have NEVER bought ANYTHING from a pop up advertisement and neither has anybody that I know, and I make a ton of purchases online. A lot more then I do in real life.
Was my last stick of RAM from Micron? Yup. Can I remember of any Micron pop-up ads? Nope. I do remember them branding the living crud out of me though.:-D
My registery was at 50k entries just in the user programs area of it, ick. I had to reformat at around that point, I was at the "can just barly boot into 800x600 16 color mode" stage that the article mentions. . ..
Luckily a simple Win2K install overtop fixed everything.:-D
But yah, machines do get a bit cruddy, admitidly it was kinda my own fault for, err, installing a few hundred *cough* *cough* applications on that particular machine, though it was NOT my fault that not all of them had decently working uninstall programs.
All the darned spyware doesn't help either, that stuff doesn't/want/ to uninstall itself.:( Ever. . ..
Then there are the demo programs that purposly leave parts of themselves behind in the registery when uninstalled just to make sure that you do not do the whole entire "Uninstall 30day trial, reinstall, use for 30 more days" thing. . . . Ick.
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I want it for GBA, like now-ish.
Plenty of NES emulators out there for the GBA, you still have your SMB3 cart riiiiight? Dump it to mem card, use emulator, play on GBA, enjoy.
Ok so it won't get the nifty graphical enhancements of a remake but. . ..
Oh and yes Nintendo still makes money off of/remaking/ their old games, but letting somebody play a game on the computer for a small fee would hardly negate selling that game for a console system or some such. And in fact they could make tons of money with a console hooked up to the internet that could rent out their older games online, heh. NES games are by far small enough to transmit over even a dial-up connection, so. . ..
I've posted this idea to various bulletin boards many many times in the past few years, about time somebody listens to me.:-D
(My idea was using off the shelf equipment though, and the controller had an estimated price of ~$90-$120, and was wireless to boot. No forcefeed back obviously, heh, would've required tons of batteries for that.:)
So Mr. Clark Gilbert of Harvard seems to think that the online newspapers aren't doing enough to collect email addresses and use them to generate extra revenue.
How hard is it to find out where a Harvard professor lives? But I could make a lot of money selling _that_ address!
Yah I'll second that, this is what the fuck is wrong with business education in this nation, no freakin ethics. Well there/are/ ethics classes but they mostly consist of figuring out how much you can piss somebody off before they won't buy your shit anymore. . ..
Beh, that guy should not be allowed to teach anyplace in the US, or abroad for that matter. What the fuck is wrong with him?
Should not be a prerequisit for getting an OS to work or do what you want it too.
I am sick and tired of this whole entire "you must go online and download XXX updates and read Such And Such manuals to learn how the f*ck to use the computer" attitude that all OSs seem to have now days.
For fucks sake folks, it is computer. It is the culmination of all of mankinds current technological acheivements, why the hell can't we make it work out of the box? Shit, I realized awhile back that without internet access to get updates that a whole lot of boxs would be fresh out of luck upon a clean install, and crud, that just is not right.
And actualy having to learn how to do something? Hell, screwed up. Options should be clear and obvious, or else why the fuck call them options? They seem more like obfusications after awhile. ..
Some Linux distros might have a big button for this. I'd blame the ones that don't and not Linux itself, which is just a kernel. ; )
A standard "powersave" command in distros would help though, eh?:-D Having to know about some command that would be rather, err, weird to find out about (hard to do a search for something when you don't know it exists or if it does by what name!!) is not good a good 'user experiance"
Wouldn't it be nice if that kind of thing was sitting under a nice big uber-option entitled Power Savings or such?
(though, granted, aren't most modern BIOSs capible of spinning down the hard drive after inactivity? I know all the ones I have seen in the last few years are. . . )
I recently encountered a problem that I was not able to scan a photograph in at the resolution that I wanted to because I did not have enough free space on my drive. . ..
A mere 13Gigs was free, heh.
(yes, my scanner 0wnz, yes the MSRP is expensive, and yes, I got it on e-bay for cheap.:-D )
Do you really think "a week" boycott will matter one bit to these nazis? No, the only thing which will work is a boycott of these clowns and their "products" for the forseeable future.
*raises hand*:)
Ok so I don't listen to music so the RIAA ban was easy, and I go to 3 or 4 movies a year, 5 tops *yawns* don't even buy any merchandising goods, LOL!
I have an addictive personality, if I did drugs I wouldn't be able to get off of them. It'd be quicker and less painful to just shoot myself in the head.
The premarital sex - or rather the relationship that entailed that - messed my mind up a lot.
As somebody born from such a coupling, I could never dream of even risking the posability of doing that to another child.
And drinking didn't help matters much.
Growing up with one person in my life who needed the alchohal all the time (and who has since quit and realized how f*cking stupid it was), I need not try out that particular stupid action for myself in order to know that it is not a good idea.
On the other hand, before I'd done all these things I was quite interested in trying them out. Hah. So in some bizarre way I'm glad I tried them all, especially if the negative effects can be counteracted in the future.
I just listened to my elders. Nature gave us this nifety intelligence / generational learning system, I figure why not use it.:-D
I am not going to the Seattle/. meet, the mosquito bites I got yesterday are driving me up the wall, I get off work, err, right now, so too-friggin-ta, I got ice cream and barbecue to eat!
FYI Rio Volt decodes mp3 and wma so I don't hitnk it would be too hard to add ogg.
I recall reading some place that.wma is just a one off from mp3s and that it is nothing much special, likely all integer decoding as well. Was that integer decoding library thing for ogg ever worked out?
If Sony went and made games that people actualy/wanted/ to own long term, then pirating would not be such a problem.
That and creating the whole atmsphere around the game, I remember my copy of Zelda, shipped with a nice color map and a manual with an actual backstory in it. Nifety cartridge to, gold, shiiiiny.:-D
Dito goes for Final Fantasy (Monster Chart, Map, etc) and a lot of other good Nintendo games. But now days, *sighs* it seems like all the games are is the disc.:(
Of course a lot of the PS2 chippers are using them for Imports, which actualy BENEFITS Sony's sales since they almost always end up selling two copies of a game to the same person. . . . yeesh.
Oh no wait, I did not see the put both on part. *sighs* See, I told you I am not good at these things, even reading it my mind refused to pick up the out of the ordinary.:(
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but for others who suffer from more serious illness it makes life bearable, or helps them to handle side effects from chemo therapy or weight loss from aids.
Of course it also screws people up and has a nice habit of reducing inhibitions. (before smoking pot most people are smart enough to know better then to smoke pot and drink, after smoking pot that same person likely doesn't care anymore. oops)
I think his bitter rant about politics should certainly suggest this theme to anyone. It seems fairly obvious that he holds the beliefs that he holds because he personally at some point was screwed over by some such politics, rather than by objective observations of the system.
:(
.
:-D )
True true. Politics suck, we all know that, and damned nearly the ONLY thing keeping it going is that everybody is afraid to act all at once to put a stop to it.
Remember committees are made up of individual members, often times individuals who bitch about how inefficient committees are. . .
(I remember in HS being picked at random to go to the school counsel thing to represent my class. When asked if there where any further topics to be brought up I said "yes, I think that this entire stupid group should be permanently dismissed and that all you little pee brained sheep should go out and shoot yourselves." They requested that I not return ever again.
Does this not have the implication that there would be nothing very terrible about rounding up large numbers of the "vast herd" and painlessly slaughtering them?
:-D )
This would be bad because. . . . ?
As long as it was done in a fair and just manner with no prejudices or false discriminations applied to the situation, I would see damn nearly no moral or ethical problems with this.
Unfortunately most people are a tad wee bit offended by the idea (not that I can blame them, history has a habit of f*cking up such systems, ick. Killing smart people for racial / religious / political reasons == baaaad! ), so I end up promoting less serious measures like birth control instead.
(yes I believe the earth has a few to many people on it, like a few billion to many people. 2 or 2.5 less would be wonderful.
yep, cause that's sure been working for the Alpha, Mozilla and the *nix desktop so far...
Face it, no matter how annoying some advertising is - it's impossible for any company to achieve a decent amount of success without it.
Err;
*cough* *cough*
AMD.
Thaaaaaank you.
For many years (err, months? whatever, fiscal quarters or something like that) after the K7 line of CPUs where first introduced, OEMs refused to carry them, but AMD continued to sell them. How? Word of mouth. People got the word out, a ton. Entire labs where stocked full of AMD x86 CPUs thanks to people having read reviews of the product online and looking at the price/performance graphs of the product. And that was without a decent motherboard choice to boot. . . . heh. Now that the K7 line of x86 CPUs has a wonderful and diverse line of motherboards behind it running on a wide range and combination of chipsets, nobody can imagine an Intel only CPU world again with AMD just barely playing on the sidelines.
Never Doubt The Power of The Users.
w00t.
Thus posted the AC:
:-D
if through the magic of online ordering they have the potential to convert a sale right now, why waste ad budget with branding type ads?
And thus I say in reply:
Duuuude, if I am out researching how the hell to get rid of an awful headache, YOU THINK I GIVE A RATS ARSE ABOUT BUYING SOME STUPID PRODUCT TO BE DELIVERED TO ME IN 2-6 WEEKS?
Uh, no.
If I am looking up information for a report, do you think I am really interested in purchasing online e-cards at $2.95 a pop? Uh, no, (plenty of free e-card providers still left around, why would I pay for one?)
Heck, I have NEVER bought ANYTHING from a pop up advertisement and neither has anybody that I know, and I make a ton of purchases online. A lot more then I do in real life.
Was my last stick of RAM from Micron? Yup. Can I remember of any Micron pop-up ads? Nope. I do remember them branding the living crud out of me though.
Feh;
.
:-D
/want/ to uninstall itself. :( Ever. . . .
My registery was at 50k entries just in the user programs area of it, ick. I had to reformat at around that point, I was at the "can just barly boot into 800x600 16 color mode" stage that the article mentions. . .
Luckily a simple Win2K install overtop fixed everything.
But yah, machines do get a bit cruddy, admitidly it was kinda my own fault for, err, installing a few hundred *cough* *cough* applications on that particular machine, though it was NOT my fault that not all of them had decently working uninstall programs.
All the darned spyware doesn't help either, that stuff doesn't
Then there are the demo programs that purposly leave parts of themselves behind in the registery when uninstalled just to make sure that you do not do the whole entire "Uninstall 30day trial, reinstall, use for 30 more days" thing. . . . Ick.
I want it for GBA, like now-ish.
.
/remaking/ their old games, but letting somebody play a game on the computer for a small fee would hardly negate selling that game for a console system or some such. And in fact they could make tons of money with a console hooked up to the internet that could rent out their older games online, heh. NES games are by far small enough to transmit over even a dial-up connection, so. . . .
Plenty of NES emulators out there for the GBA, you still have your SMB3 cart riiiiight? Dump it to mem card, use emulator, play on GBA, enjoy.
Ok so it won't get the nifty graphical enhancements of a remake but. . .
Oh and yes Nintendo still makes money off of
And people would still buy the GBA remakes. ^_^
I've posted this idea to various bulletin boards many many times in the past few years, about time somebody listens to me. :-D
:)
(My idea was using off the shelf equipment though, and the controller had an estimated price of ~$90-$120, and was wireless to boot. No forcefeed back obviously, heh, would've required tons of batteries for that.
So Mr. Clark Gilbert of Harvard seems to think that the online newspapers aren't doing enough to collect email addresses and use them to generate extra revenue.
/are/ ethics classes but they mostly consist of figuring out how much you can piss somebody off before they won't buy your shit anymore. . . .
How hard is it to find out where a Harvard professor lives? But I could make a lot of money selling _that_ address!
Yah I'll second that, this is what the fuck is wrong with business education in this nation, no freakin ethics. Well there
Beh, that guy should not be allowed to teach anyplace in the US, or abroad for that matter. What the fuck is wrong with him?
Oh yah, he is a suit trainer, never mind. . .
People first need to learn how to search the net.
Should not be a prerequisit for getting an OS to work or do what you want it too.
I am sick and tired of this whole entire "you must go online and download XXX updates and read Such And Such manuals to learn how the f*ck to use the computer" attitude that all OSs seem to have now days.
For fucks sake folks, it is computer. It is the culmination of all of mankinds current technological acheivements, why the hell can't we make it work out of the box? Shit, I realized awhile back that without internet access to get updates that a whole lot of boxs would be fresh out of luck upon a clean install, and crud, that just is not right.
And actualy having to learn how to do something? Hell, screwed up. Options should be clear and obvious, or else why the fuck call them options? They seem more like obfusications after awhile. .
Maybe some ultra-high-end model that might be used in the printing industry or something like that,
:-)
Bingo. Fair bit bigger then letter size was being scanned in, I was doing image restoration so I needed all the DPI I could squeeze in.
Beats me, was measured in DPI, heh.
:-D
/true/ DPI mind you, not some interpolated crud!)
Was around 2400DPI though, so. . . .
(that is
Some Linux distros might have a big button for this. I'd blame the ones that don't and not Linux itself, which is just a kernel. ; )
:-D Having to know about some command that would be rather, err, weird to find out about (hard to do a search for something when you don't know it exists or if it does by what name!!) is not good a good 'user experiance"
A standard "powersave" command in distros would help though, eh?
. Now windows xyz2005 can take up 4 gigs and photoshop 9 can take another 2 because they know people have it.
:-D )
At its current rate of growth, yah, windows maybe.
But remember that Photoshop is a ported app from the Mac plateform, Adobe has reason to keep it as small as possible. (easier to port and all.
It'd be great if Linux could spin it down...
Have you tried hdparm?
Wouldn't it be nice if that kind of thing was sitting under a nice big uber-option entitled Power Savings or such?
(though, granted, aren't most modern BIOSs capible of spinning down the hard drive after inactivity? I know all the ones I have seen in the last few years are. . . )
I recently encountered a problem that I was not able to scan a photograph in at the resolution that I wanted to because I did not have enough free space on my drive. . . .
:-D )
A mere 13Gigs was free, heh.
(yes, my scanner 0wnz, yes the MSRP is expensive, and yes, I got it on e-bay for cheap.
What the hell would we DO? Go outside!?
:-)
Library. Or independent music house, bars, clubs, you know, err, those 'other' places?
Or shit just sit down and talk.
Jigsaw puzzles even. Yeesh. Monopoly, whatever
Internet! Yaah!
Do you really think "a week" boycott will matter one bit to these nazis? No, the only thing which will work is a boycott of these clowns and their "products" for the forseeable future.
:)
*raises hand*
Ok so I don't listen to music so the RIAA ban was easy, and I go to 3 or 4 movies a year, 5 tops *yawns* don't even buy any merchandising goods, LOL!
TV is boring.
The drugs messed my mind up quite a bit.
:-D
I have an addictive personality, if I did drugs I wouldn't be able to get off of them. It'd be quicker and less painful to just shoot myself in the head.
The premarital sex - or rather the relationship that entailed that - messed my mind up a lot.
As somebody born from such a coupling, I could never dream of even risking the posability of doing that to another child.
And drinking didn't help matters much.
Growing up with one person in my life who needed the alchohal all the time (and who has since quit and realized how f*cking stupid it was), I need not try out that particular stupid action for myself in order to know that it is not a good idea.
On the other hand, before I'd done all these things I was quite interested in trying them out. Hah. So in some bizarre way I'm glad I tried them all, especially if the negative effects can be counteracted in the future.
I just listened to my elders. Nature gave us this nifety intelligence / generational learning system, I figure why not use it.
I am not going to the Seattle /. meet, the mosquito bites I got yesterday are driving me up the wall, I get off work, err, right now, so too-friggin-ta, I got ice cream and barbecue to eat!
I tend to piss a lot of people off with my
"don't do drugs don't drink don't have premarital sex" views.
^_^
Decisions decisions decisions. . . .
/. meet and hopefuly try to outrun any mob of people who want me dead. . . .
;`(
Go to park with friend, get eaten by mosqitos, but have fun, go to
DOH!
FYI Rio Volt decodes mp3 and wma so I don't hitnk it would be too hard to add ogg.
.wma is just a one off from mp3s and that it is nothing much special, likely all integer decoding as well. Was that integer decoding library thing for ogg ever worked out?
I recall reading some place that
If Sony went and made games that people actualy /wanted/ to own long term, then pirating would not be such a problem.
:-D
:(
That and creating the whole atmsphere around the game, I remember my copy of Zelda, shipped with a nice color map and a manual with an actual backstory in it. Nifety cartridge to, gold, shiiiiny.
Dito goes for Final Fantasy (Monster Chart, Map, etc) and a lot of other good Nintendo games. But now days, *sighs* it seems like all the games are is the disc.
Of course a lot of the PS2 chippers are using them for Imports, which actualy BENEFITS Sony's sales since they almost always end up selling two copies of a game to the same person. . . . yeesh.
Oh no wait, I did not see the put both on part. *sighs* See, I told you I am not good at these things, even reading it my mind refused to pick up the out of the ordinary. :(