First attempting to explain to people who want to have more then 2 children why that is a bad idea.
and if that fails?
Could somebody PLEEEEAAASSEEEE legalize strangling the motherfuckers to death? PLEASE
Yes the adoption system in America needs to be revamped, but that is no excuse for having buttloads of kids! People who cannot love a child because of the color of the child's skin should NOT be parents at all.
I have all the AD&D Gold Box games, just played through them last year in fact, still just as playable as ever (except for the last version of the GoldBox engine, the SVGA one, that one sucked, eeew, the slow down utilities also have a horrid time with it), and a good reminder as to how hard RPGs are supposed to be.
Tried going back to 0 a few days ago, got page widened, back to +1
But the way I have things setup even ACs are at +1, funny, insightful, and interesting are at +5, troll is at -3, and my threshold (as stated) is at +1.
Rather nice actually, I miss out on/very/ little, maybe 1 or 2 dozen comments out of every few hundred.
Aside from the problem of exposure to elements, this might be fine for a single Cat5 cable dropped from an upstairs room to a downstairs one, but running two Cat5 and two RG6 cables makes for a messy bundle. Even the combined cable you can get is 3/4" thick. A single RG6 cable is about 1/4" thick. To do this right, you really have to run a steel conduit on the outside (one inch diameter to accomodate the cable -- this gets visible and ugly), and drill through the wall.
Eeew, how many computer do you HAVE running in that place?....
Wow, just did a search for RG6, never knew there where so many types of Coax. . . . LOL. I've had such crappy experience with Coax I've pretty much given up on it, you know what the friggin quality loss on that stuff is after the first 50 feet? Ick. (ok so it was being split through a 10yr+ old splitter and such, but still, heh. The stables used to attach it to the wall likely didn't help to much either. ^_^ )
Neatness counts. Maybe not for you, but it does for me.
I didn't have much of an option, either that or routing it through a story of drywall, which was, err, put up by my friggin drunken grand father (gee thanks ga'pops) Yeesh. Boards spaced pretty much randomly throughout. . . . ick.
Oh, and to refer back to the first line of your reply;
exposure to the elements? Well besides perhaps acting as a bit of a mini-lighting rod, not much has happened actually. Kind of surprising considering the wind and rain storms that happen around here, but hey, it keeps on working!
Ok so granted at one point I was pinging 200 to a computer on my own LAN but. . . . hehe. ^_^ (now it is down to 25 or so)
The idea there is to sacrifice the vehicle, getting it to absorb much of the energy of the impact, in order to improve the passenger's chances of survival.
Why not just bowl right on over whatever is in the way and keep on going?
Think tank running into geo metro. People in tank ain't gonna be worrying about whiplash.
You don't want a car to withstand a front end collision. Even if cars could be made indestructible, they wouldn't be. Havn't you ever heard of a crumple zone? You want the car to decelerate as slowly as possible, which mean crushing as much as possible.
Bull Fucking Shit
You know those commercials where the car hits the brick wall and they show how well the car 'crumples' up as a safety feature?
I hate those.
If I hit a brick wall, I WANT TO KEEP ON GOING RIGHT ON THROUGH fuck the brick wall and fuck crumpling up like a wuss, the *brick wall* can/move/ and crumple up like a little wimp.
The first plans for the new alloy are to be used in golf clubs, baseball bats, skis, and cell phone covers.
What a great country!
Feh, if those are the only uses planned for it in the near future I won't be seeing it at all for awhile, except maybe outside of some sort of exhibit or such, then again the types of places that 'exhibit' new golf clubs are not exactly the types of places that I would/want/ to go to either. . ..
(baseball bats? WTF? WHY?)
Hmm, the cell phone cover thing/does/ sound halfway decent though, maybe somebody will FINALLY make a no-none sense cell-phone that is damn nearly bullet proof, water proof, and can take a beating like an APPLIANCE should be able to.
Sure, plastic fiber isn't optically as good as glass, but it's good enough for some things. The new 1394B spec, as I recall, goes to 3.2 Gbit over up to 50 meters of plastic fiber. And it's a lot less fragile than glass fiber.
Plastic fiber to the workstation seems eminently practical.
Can I roll it up, tie it into knots, and do other 'coppery' things with it?
In case war ever breaks out I can always start hanging traitors with spare CAT5, can plastic fiber do that?:-D
Why??? Fibre is a much better medium for transmitting data over much longer distances.
Copper is cheaper, copper is safer. Fiber has inherent dangers in the making and even potential use of.
Fiber also breaks easily. Can't coil it up (as much?) can't stomp on it, can't bend it, can't shut windows on it, and so forth. CAT5 rocks. Copper rocks. Get over it.and stop trying to push 'new' tech that is not neccisarly better then the 'old' tech.:-D
I have my cable duct taped to the outside walls of the house, CAT5 is very VERY malleable, goes out window, window still shuts and all, down side of house, in window.
Done.
All of about a 3 minute run if that. Why the, err, fuss?
If you are worried about looks, go wireless, has been around for quite some time, though I can understand you not going that route if it was not accessible when you where doing things.
Well damnit fucked that up. Lets try this again, Rant 2.0
people jsut seems to have dismissed harry potter as crap beceause it is popular with children which is very common. like people hated pokemon beceause young kids liked the anime.
Umm, pokemon IS crap.
Horribly CUTE crap mind you, but crap none the less.
Actually what pisses me off isn't the over marketing, it isn't the shoddy TV show, and it isn't even the CCG knock off.
It is that it is a DECENT, I repeat, DECENT RPG that was rather linear and boring and good for a few hour run through, and that is it. All the fan fair about a middle-grade RPG isn't really right.
Yes folks, the game in me still lives on. w00t! SSI GOLD BOX FOREVER, BIZZZOOOTCH!
people jsut seems to have dismissed harry potter as crap beceause it is popular with children which is very common. like people hated pokemon beceause young kids liked the anime./i?
Umm, pokemon IS crap.
Horribly CUTE crap mind you, but crap none the less.
Actually what pisses me off isn't the over marketing, it isn't the shoddy TV show, and it isn't even the CCG knock off.
It is that it is a DECENT, I repeat, DECENT RPG that was rather linear and boring and good for a few hour run through, and that is it. All the fan fair about a middle-grade RPG isn't really right.
Yes folks, the game in me still lives on. w00t! SSI GOLD BOX FOREVER, BIZZZOOOTCH!
Actually, that's what books look like in Korean, champ. This [zhongwen.com] is Chinese.
Rather amazing that some people are.... ignorant enough not to know the difference.::sighs::
Then again I guess being in the pacific NW a person learns the difference one way or the other, hehe. I wonder who the stupid e-bay auctioneer is who doesn't even know what he/she is selling?
Saying deep-linking is illegal is about as insightful as saying that failure to watch television commercials is theft.
True, but instead think of it as a case of teleporting into the aisle of a store that has the item you want, and right in front of that item, picking up the item, and then teleporting to the checkout stand. (though in the case of the website the checkout stand is actually right next to you).
A more apt metaphor I think, and while I still do not agree with the decision or Ticketmaster's stand on the issue, it does illuminate their possession a bit more.
Yah, that is rather amazing. I could understand them bitching if they got massive links to some special offer of there that was below cost and designed to just draw in customers (loss leader), it would be the same as if somebody was standing outside a safeway offering to, at no cost, run inside the story and buy all the items on sale for you, but other then that. . ..
Oooh ouchies, hadn't thought of that one. Eek. That could be. . . . . icky.
Well, I for one will not be citing Danish newspapers in any of my future research projects, so hah!
Oh wait. . . .
Heh.
Any ways though, yah, with the recent trends towards trying to make inane rulings in one country applicable to multiple other countries, these types of rulings could very quickly become very very dangerous.:(
Deep linking is when you link to an interior page. For example, Ticketmaster filed a lawsuit a while back (I think) against sites that linked users directly to interior pages to buy tickets for a specific show. Instead of going to www.ticketmaster.com and then searching for, say, Radiohead...a site that linked directly to the "Buy Radiohead tickets" page would be in violation. This lawsuit is pretty deep.
That I can almost understand, since Ticket Master is relying on people to visit their website and see all the shows that they have to offer rather then just that one. It could possibly be proven that if everybody did that then ticket master would lose sales that it might have otherwise gotten from customers who would be enticed by other shows. In addition it also limits the customer's knowledge of the full range of 'services' (ick) that Ticketmaster offers.
On the flip side, fuck'em, user referral headings like the pr0n and warez sites have been doing for years.
I read someplace that ATA is just SCSI with all the goodies striped out to begin with, so this just sounds like a continuation of that pattern.::shrugs:: Makes sense really, look at what the top performer is and how it works, and then take out all the very high end stuff that is not likely to be used with it in order to simplify it down and reduce costs, make it a bit more user friendly (at the cost of a bit of performance), and release it as a consumer spec.
The problem is that most Firewire HDs are just ATA HDs with a Firewire adapter shoved on them, thus they inherent all the limitations of ATA along with any limitations of Firewire. Doh.
Pain in the arse really, and why continue supporting two interfaces on one product if you don't have too?
Firewire is a good overall common denominator specification, but for something physically stable and performance based that also needs a low cost like consumer HDs, a dedicated standard is really best.
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First attempting to explain to people who want to have more then 2 children why that is a bad idea.
and if that fails?
Could somebody PLEEEEAAASSEEEE legalize strangling the motherfuckers to death? PLEASE
Yes the adoption system in America needs to be revamped, but that is no excuse for having buttloads of kids! People who cannot love a child because of the color of the child's skin should NOT be parents at all.
. It also does dependancy checking (for example, I added Windowmaker and it added all the xfree stuff).
/perfect/ in this regard, I have had it 'forget' a few things before, but all in all it is indeed a rather nice utility.
It isn't
Beats the crud outa MSI packages, if just for how well it keeps the user informed of what is going on.
Well that sucks, Windows only does it to +/- 10ms, feh.
Remind me to strangle somebody down at Redmond HQ for including the most minimal Ping util that they could. . . .
Amen.
I have all the AD&D Gold Box games, just played through them last year in fact, still just as playable as ever (except for the last version of the GoldBox engine, the SVGA one, that one sucked, eeew, the slow down utilities also have a horrid time with it), and a good reminder as to how hard RPGs are supposed to be.
What ping utility gives times in ms to 3 decimal places?
The music for *my* band is free for download, and you won't find it in a store. Granted, I don't know if we're a "cool new band."
/. sigs are great ad venues. :-D
You have a sig, use it. I get ~20 visitors a day through my sig,
Tried going back to 0 a few days ago, got page widened, back to +1
/very/ little, maybe 1 or 2 dozen comments out of every few hundred.
But the way I have things setup even ACs are at +1, funny, insightful, and interesting are at +5, troll is at -3, and my threshold (as stated) is at +1.
Rather nice actually, I miss out on
Aside from the problem of exposure to elements, this might be fine for a single Cat5 cable dropped from an upstairs room to a downstairs one, but running two Cat5 and two RG6 cables makes for a messy bundle. Even the combined cable you can get is 3/4" thick. A single RG6 cable is about 1/4" thick. To do this right, you really have to run a steel conduit on the outside (one inch diameter to accomodate the cable -- this gets visible and ugly), and drill through the wall.
....
Eeew, how many computer do you HAVE running in that place?
Wow, just did a search for RG6, never knew there where so many types of Coax. . . . LOL. I've had such crappy experience with Coax I've pretty much given up on it, you know what the friggin quality loss on that stuff is after the first 50 feet? Ick. (ok so it was being split through a 10yr+ old splitter and such, but still, heh. The stables used to attach it to the wall likely didn't help to much either. ^_^ )
Neatness counts. Maybe not for you, but it does for me.
I didn't have much of an option, either that or routing it through a story of drywall, which was, err, put up by my friggin drunken grand father (gee thanks ga'pops) Yeesh. Boards spaced pretty much randomly throughout. . . . ick.
Oh, and to refer back to the first line of your reply;
exposure to the elements? Well besides perhaps acting as a bit of a mini-lighting rod, not much has happened actually. Kind of surprising considering the wind and rain storms that happen around here, but hey, it keeps on working!
Ok so granted at one point I was pinging 200 to a computer on my own LAN but. . . . hehe. ^_^ (now it is down to 25 or so)
The idea there is to sacrifice the vehicle, getting it to absorb much of the energy of the impact, in order to improve the passenger's chances of survival.
Why not just bowl right on over whatever is in the way and keep on going?
Think tank running into geo metro. People in tank ain't gonna be worrying about whiplash.
- You don't want a car to withstand a front end collision. Even if cars could be made indestructible, they wouldn't be. Havn't you ever heard of a crumple zone? You want the car to decelerate as slowly as possible, which mean crushing as much as possible.
Bull Fucking ShitYou know those commercials where the car hits the brick wall and they show how well the car 'crumples' up as a safety feature?
I hate those.
If I hit a brick wall, I WANT TO KEEP ON GOING RIGHT ON THROUGH fuck the brick wall and fuck crumpling up like a wuss, the *brick wall* can
Ah yes, but it can only go for 30 sec before needing service.
So Ford's project of integrating the Windows 95 OSR1 kernal with a vehicle is finally finished?
Damnit I told them to stick with DOS.
- The first plans for the new alloy are to be used in golf clubs, baseball bats, skis, and cell phone covers.
What a great country!Feh, if those are the only uses planned for it in the near future I won't be seeing it at all for awhile, except maybe outside of some sort of exhibit or such, then again the types of places that 'exhibit' new golf clubs are not exactly the types of places that I would
(baseball bats? WTF? WHY?)
Hmm, the cell phone cover thing
I am getting sick and tired of plastic.
"Plastic".
:-D
Sure, plastic fiber isn't optically as good as glass, but it's good enough for some things. The new 1394B spec, as I recall, goes to 3.2 Gbit over up to 50 meters of plastic fiber. And it's a lot less fragile than glass fiber.
Plastic fiber to the workstation seems eminently practical.
Can I roll it up, tie it into knots, and do other 'coppery' things with it?
In case war ever breaks out I can always start hanging traitors with spare CAT5, can plastic fiber do that?
Why??? Fibre is a much better medium for transmitting data over much longer distances.
:-D
Copper is cheaper, copper is safer. Fiber has inherent dangers in the making and even potential use of.
Fiber also breaks easily. Can't coil it up (as much?) can't stomp on it, can't bend it, can't shut windows on it, and so forth. CAT5 rocks. Copper rocks. Get over it.and stop trying to push 'new' tech that is not neccisarly better then the 'old' tech.
....
why?
Seriously;
I have my cable duct taped to the outside walls of the house, CAT5 is very VERY malleable, goes out window, window still shuts and all, down side of house, in window.
Done.
All of about a 3 minute run if that. Why the, err, fuss?
If you are worried about looks, go wireless, has been around for quite some time, though I can understand you not going that route if it was not accessible when you where doing things.
Well damnit fucked that up. Lets try this again, Rant 2.0
people jsut seems to have dismissed harry potter as crap beceause it is popular with children which is very common. like people hated pokemon beceause young kids liked the anime.
Umm, pokemon IS crap.
Horribly CUTE crap mind you, but crap none the less.
Actually what pisses me off isn't the over marketing, it isn't the shoddy TV show, and it isn't even the CCG knock off.
It is that it is a DECENT, I repeat, DECENT RPG that was rather linear and boring and good for a few hour run through, and that is it. All the fan fair about a middle-grade RPG isn't really right.
Yes folks, the game in me still lives on. w00t! SSI GOLD BOX FOREVER, BIZZZOOOTCH!
people jsut seems to have dismissed harry potter as crap beceause it is popular with children which is very common. like people hated pokemon beceause young kids liked the anime./i?
Umm, pokemon IS crap.
Horribly CUTE crap mind you, but crap none the less.
Actually what pisses me off isn't the over marketing, it isn't the shoddy TV show, and it isn't even the CCG knock off.
It is that it is a DECENT, I repeat, DECENT RPG that was rather linear and boring and good for a few hour run through, and that is it. All the fan fair about a middle-grade RPG isn't really right.
Yes folks, the game in me still lives on. w00t! SSI GOLD BOX FOREVER, BIZZZOOOTCH!
Actually, that's what books look like in Korean, champ. This [zhongwen.com] is Chinese.
.... ignorant enough not to know the difference. ::sighs::
Rather amazing that some people are
Then again I guess being in the pacific NW a person learns the difference one way or the other, hehe. I wonder who the stupid e-bay auctioneer is who doesn't even know what he/she is selling?
Saying deep-linking is illegal is about as insightful as saying that failure to watch television commercials is theft.
True, but instead think of it as a case of teleporting into the aisle of a store that has the item you want, and right in front of that item, picking up the item, and then teleporting to the checkout stand. (though in the case of the website the checkout stand is actually right next to you).
A more apt metaphor I think, and while I still do not agree with the decision or Ticketmaster's stand on the issue, it does illuminate their possession a bit more.
Yah, that is rather amazing. I could understand them bitching if they got massive links to some special offer of there that was below cost and designed to just draw in customers (loss leader), it would be the same as if somebody was standing outside a safeway offering to, at no cost, run inside the story and buy all the items on sale for you, but other then that. . . .
heh.
That also Kills Bookmarks though, doh!
(well unless implemented VERY VERY carefuly it does, ouch)
And then you have little old ladies bitching at you too, and they tend to be a primary demographic of newspapers, not to mention repeat customers.
- Citing specific pages in your footnotes.
:(
Oooh ouchies, hadn't thought of that one. Eek. That could be. . . . . icky.
Well, I for one will not be citing Danish newspapers in any of my future research projects, so hah!
Oh wait. . . .
Heh.
Any ways though, yah, with the recent trends towards trying to make inane rulings in one country applicable to multiple other countries, these types of rulings could very quickly become very very dangerous.
Deep linking is when you link to an interior page. For example, Ticketmaster filed a lawsuit a while back (I think) against sites that linked users directly to interior pages to buy tickets for a specific show. Instead of going to www.ticketmaster.com and then searching for, say, Radiohead...a site that linked directly to the "Buy Radiohead tickets" page would be in violation.
This lawsuit is pretty deep.
That I can almost understand, since Ticket Master is relying on people to visit their website and see all the shows that they have to offer rather then just that one. It could possibly be proven that if everybody did that then ticket master would lose sales that it might have otherwise gotten from customers who would be enticed by other shows. In addition it also limits the customer's knowledge of the full range of 'services' (ick) that Ticketmaster offers.
On the flip side, fuck'em, user referral headings like the pr0n and warez sites have been doing for years.
I read someplace that ATA is just SCSI with all the goodies striped out to begin with, so this just sounds like a continuation of that pattern. ::shrugs:: Makes sense really, look at what the top performer is and how it works, and then take out all the very high end stuff that is not likely to be used with it in order to simplify it down and reduce costs, make it a bit more user friendly (at the cost of a bit of performance), and release it as a consumer spec.
The problem is that most Firewire HDs are just ATA HDs with a Firewire adapter shoved on them, thus they inherent all the limitations of ATA along with any limitations of Firewire. Doh.
Pain in the arse really, and why continue supporting two interfaces on one product if you don't have too?
Firewire is a good overall common denominator specification, but for something physically stable and performance based that also needs a low cost like consumer HDs, a dedicated standard is really best.