Yugh, amen to that, people need to learn, don't run HTTP servers over a 15Kilobyte per second upload connection, yuck!
Some @Home users are actualy blessed with a local ISP that gives them more then 128kbit, but to them I say, run a FTP site instead!;)
Seriously though, this affects me not in the least because I am not running any sort of server software except for the occasional P2P program. Big whoop, so some more unpatched machines are now officaly fux0red, yugh, so whats new?
I use the Cache more often then the real site itself, with how many sites that have gone under recently alot of content on hosted webpages is now gone. Googles Cache allows for me to get information no matter what has happened to it on the actual site.
Heck, back when I first started BBSing (and was foolish enough to give out my real information) one time the Admin told another poster who was flaming me to "shut the fuck up, the guy your talking to is 9 years old and is acting alot more mature and intelligent then you are".
Obviously I have aged a bit since then (heh, Dial-UP BBSs died and all of that), but hell, it tought me a lesson. The best part about being online is that age doesn't matter, maturity does.
Oh, and BTW; I inherited this name from my original BBS days, hehe, not nearly as accuret any more naturaly enough, but hell, its my name and I'm going to keep it:)
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How nice, now just hand over the DVDs and I'll be happy.
Quite frankly I don't care if its acronyme is R.A.P.E (not that -ANY- program would -EVER- use that as an acro,::grins:: ) shit, I just want my entertainment damnit! Got a fast ass CPU, got a fast ass Cable Modem, got the best damn fucking 2d card on the market (Matrox, w00t), but nobodies offering up pure entertainment!
I'm RIAA free, not a single RIAA disk on me, all independent. Shit folks, I _NEVER_ used MP3.com for illegial file storage anyways, shit, I have just always appreciated the large ammounts of independent bands that they contain.
Howling Syn
Celestial Vision
Margaret Davis
Three Dead Trolls In a Baggy
Iria
And so on and so forth.
Shit, everythings there folks, from Italian Power Metal Opera Medieval Celtic music (yes, that is ONE single song, hehe, all of those Genras in it, damnit that song rocks too:) to some Genras that are, err, odd to say the least, shit, they have it all %100 percent independent.
well, now they are owned by an arm of the RIAA (member of the RIAA rather) but shit, the artists still rock, and the RIAA member that 0wnz them ain't getting nothin but a few cents profit, shit.
I support independent authors and so should j00!
The First Mile needs upgrading!
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So. . . .
I have a cable modem.
My ISP doesn't cap my download rates.
You know what 2MBp/s is like on a residential line? Let me tell you, its SWEET!
I can stream 640x480 VHQ QuickTime Video (Very High Quality). I don't even know how high of quality MPEG4 I could stream.
Oh wait, yes I do, DVD quality, thats what! For that matter, I could stream TWO DVD quality movies right on down my line. No reason as to why not, its about a 1gig file for a DVD quality movie (depending on the person doing the judgment of quality of course) in MPEG4. I can download 640megs in under 10 minutes. 2 hours? Heh, easy.
Oh wait.
No online sites GIVE me that type of bandwidth on a regular basis. I can easily take up an entire T1 line (T1s are obsolete now days anyways, their bandwidth goes almost nowheres), and shoot, even a T3 can only handle a very few cable modem users.
OC3 anyone? Even OC3s could not handle the types of crowds that a multimedia website would have to draw in order to sustain itself (if it ever could with the banner ad market being like it is).
Yes, the backbones are crowded, but that is really not even the largest problem. Shit, more backbones can be made easily. @Home has taken this approuch, I get a ping of 30 all up and down the west coast. Shit, there are days when I do not get pings that low on my own LAN.
Why not redefine the networks structure instead? Rather then havine one, two, or even three sites to get a file from, why not have local access hubs where all major multimedia content is stored and passed on to the users requesting it? After all, if 10,000 users on the west coast are requesting the same multimedia stream from Dnver, why not just send that media stream to a local west coast access point and then didstribute it to the consumers from there? You'd likely have to have multiple access points, not just one for the entire west coast would do it, but 2 or 3 would for the coastal states.
Hell, think about it. You'd have less data going across the main pipelines, and the local access points would be distributing the same amount of data if they where just large regional routing centers anyways. (I'm thinking of using the GigaPOPs obviously). The distribution centers would not have reason to charge any sort of money for their service (it could just be implemented as part of the routers) since technicaly they would not be using up any more resources then they would otherwise be using up under the current system. It's like multicasting, but ISPs would actualy cooperate! (yah right).
Shit, getting the data from the distribution point to the end user would then be a cinch. If ISPs do their job correctly (once again, another
'yah right') then their local networks should not be too clogged up. Any half assed broadband provider should at least be offering their consumers 2048kbit service, which is actualy a mere 256KBp/s. While DSL users are pretty much fucked on this one, those of us out there enjoying more lucritive services would be quite happy with the service presented to us.
The first mile has a bandwidth blockage folks. Bigging fatter wires running around isn't going to solve the problem forever. If you can make it so that you don't need quite so many bigger fatter wires, then you have partialy elivated the problem for the long term. After all, a permanite reduction in need, is, well, very -very-long term.
That
and I want
really really -really- fucking want
my high ass end DVD quality videos.
Fuck.
its the 21st century.
I didn't get my flying cars, or my talking intelligent robots, or even a colony on the moon (not to mention mars).
I at least want a fucking video on my computer that I don't have to illegialy pir@te from some source, or that isn't an old 60's B movie. For fucks sake, I have the bandwidth NOW GIVE ME MY DAMN ENTERTAINMENT!
No matter how many home loan ads I see, it still doesn't change the fact that I don't gotta home to take a loan out on, m'kay mr pop up? Shiet, when will these companys learn, undirected piss poor aimed ads DO NOT GAIN SALES. All they do is stick your name in the customers mind SO THAT THEY REMEMBER TO NEVER EVER EVER USE YOUR PRODUCT IF THEY EVER NEED IT. No seriously, get this, surprise surprise, if I don't want your product, if I cannot even USE your product (I really hate that one for that voice messaging while your on the internet, shit, I have a cable modem, what phone line exactly would I free up eh? Shit, at least check the customers IP address against a known listing of broadband ISPs)I'm not going to buy it no matter how hard you try and sell it.
Like selling boots to a man with no legs, kinda useless, heh. Not to mention, it'll piss of the guy with no legs, and it'll still cost you money.
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Hehe, actualy I perfer to take the other stance.
Scientist got the idea's right, engineers make a proper implementation
but the *!$#ing bean counter used the cheap ass plastic!
hehe, just rename a non-executable file to.exe and run it:)
At least you could turn on a DOS computer and leave it running and reasonably expect that without hardware failures, it wouldn't ever break down. Not like some windows OS's that due to programming gliches actualy crash after so many months, or weeks in some cases, ickies. Or days if your talking Windows95OSR1
I had one with a 2 gallon backpack on it, hehe. Yes, the MoFo was heavy, but it beat the living shit out of ANY super soaker that came near me. The best part is that they are ALOT cheaper then super soakers, and they are built to about the same piss poor quality so that you can expect them to last almost as long.
Yet they never have worked!
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Amazing how super soakers always managed to leak horribly, break down quickly, or otherwise fuck up.
Thank goodness for Super Glue, I still have an original Super Soaker 50, damnit that thing was a pain to get! Hehe, cost alot of money too, of course I just had to get one the first year that they came out (and then of course nobody wanted to have a water gun fight with me anymore, hehe)
"But most "enterprise" applications are not CPU bound, anyway."
How lovly, I wonder how much money could be saved if some of those companies went around and optimized their code, I mean surly they are using FAR to much CPU power for what they have to do.
Hell, just look at different BBS software out there. Some of it totaly sux0r, some of it rocks, but none of it can run on a 486, and shit, that is still MASSIVLY overkill for running a mere BBS, theres no reason why 4 or 5 users on a messaging systems should slow the system to a crawl. If corporate software is as bloated percentage wise as mid-range software, then we are all in some serious shit no wonder that so many.coms failed, hehe, somebody forgot to save resources:) Imagin if CPU/Electricity/Racks paid for was cut in half. . . .
To take the purity of logical computer thought and to pervert it with emotions is in itself evil. I refuse to believe that such a horrible thing as FEELING machines would ever take off. I hate the very thought of the mathmatical logical haven of computers being horribly maimed by emotions.
Going to see it tomarrow, but still, I am _ALOT_ less ethusiastic about it now.
Easy actualy, something that dictionary attacks are almost compleatly useless against, and that you will be able to remember no matter how many passwords you may have! Of course constant PW rotation can make this more difficult, but. . . .
Take your favorite class, perferably _NOT_ from a major collage or such, pick a high school or middle school class that you took in the past.
Abreviate the subject if necciary or depending on the length needed of the PW. So WorldHistory could become WrldHis. Now then, append the room number that you took it in, say you took it in portable 14.
WrldHisP14 Add the teachers name. WrldHisP14Smith
Tada, NOBODY would guess that password, ever. Not only is it long, but a dictionary attack would have a bitch of a time going through it even if it was programmed to use abbreviations. The more obscure the refrence and class of course, the better the password.
ChmySci278Tugure.
Soot, who'd guess something like that, eh? Hell, notice the cutsie abbrevation of chemistry, instead of the obvious chem or chemi, replace the 'i' with a 'y'.
Once again, such passwords are easy to remember because that are CLOSE TO YOU, but they are something that almost nobody would guess. Shoot, even if they know what scheme your using for your passwords, not only have you taken alot of courses in your life, but there are MANY ways to abbreviate them. Granted if your scheme is known it signifigantly reduces the number of words that a person has to try, and if they get ahold of your class transcripts then they would have a listing of teachers names and such to go along with the class, and the only thing protecting you would be odd spellings and abbrevations, but shit. . . .
If somebody can get ahold of ALL your personal information, then your fucked anyways:)
I myself of course have a few added twists to that scheme, and I use more then one scheme to come up with my passwords (depending on the security of the site, and my own box of course has a compleatly different PW then anything else that I ever use:), but the method that I just outlined above is highly useful for those sites that want insansly long passwords, and for ones that want immensly short passwords. You can easily use a shorter class/teacher name for the shorter less security required sites, and longer class/teacher name for the more secure sites.
Or hell, you can implement this as part of your 1337 u/\/#@ck@b13 password scheme and append a few dozen other phrases to the end of the ones created by my idea. As it is, easy to think up of, easy to remember, and easy to generate new ones as you need to change your passwords. And a total bitch to break:) Granted, alot easier then if it was a purly random sequence, but shit, with random sequences, ya got the post it note thing going against ya:)
The first occurence of the word "job" on each page I have visited today goes to hotjobs.com, this a massive advertising gimic by hotjobs or what? Hehee, strange at least.
I find it highly amusing that between all this praise of Ciscos excellent support services, their training manuals are horribly written, have piss poor grammer, and even the occasional glaring technical error.
You'd figure that Cisco is big enough that they could afford to hire a few decent writers:)
Yeesh, the GBC's lack of contrast control bothered me for all of about 5 minutes, until I realized that I no longer NEEDED contrast control, I could play in conditions that my original GB could never manage, heh. Hell, even WITH a lot of lights on it, the GB had various issues displaying anything, I often times got cramps from sitting in odd positions trying to play my original GB, now with my GBC I can just whip it out any time, it works perfectly.
If the GBA is no differnt from the GBC (which is far brighter then the GB if you ask me, of course that could just be the fact that colors are naturaly lighter then, err, black on black with some gradiated black:) then I'll purchase one just as soon as somebody steals then sells one to the local pawn shop:)
So anyways I read that alot of people say the GBA's screen is alot like the GBC's screen, and that the GBC's screen also sucks.
HUH?????????????????
Ok, question. Why didn't nintendo just make the GBA's screen the same as the GameBoy Color's screen? The GBC has NO problems with lighting as far as I can tell, I get perfect results in VERY low light conditions. Even under moderate flourecent lighting I do good, and I can even play it outside on overcast/cloudy days. If the GBA used the exact same screen technology as the GBC but with a slightly enlarged display, I would be able to get the same gazzilion hour battery life out of it, last time I checked it is well over 12hrs, likely closer to 16 (I've left it on overnight and still been able to play it for a few weeks without needing to change the batteries!) and the damn thing just ROCKS!
Why did Nintendo change the type of LCD screen they use?
shit, I kept on saying that all of this.com biz was B.S. but nobody listened to me. Honestly, all of these people rushed to get degrees in their own little limited field of knowledge and now that they are too specalized they are finding out that their opportunities have dried up.
People should really think first before dedicating themselves to a company who's bussiness ideaology involves giving stuff away for free. Honestly, you guys actualy thought that would WORK? Hehe, I still cannot believe it,::yawns::
I'm sick and tired of all this emphisis on story lines, give us back what we truly liked about startrek, namly the obsessivly large amounts of TNT used in each episode!
Ok ok, I admit it, I was one of the people who begged for "more intelligent story driven" TV plots, but I admit, I was wrong, TV producers cannot do TRUE story plots, so go back to the senseless mindless violence already! Shit, I want stuff blown up damnit! I want Kirk fucking alien woman, and I want insanly powerfull enemies each episode come up and eventualy settle on fighting in hand to hand combat!
I WANT MINDLESS TESTOSTERONE FILLED SENSELESS VIOLENCE BACK ON TV
Hehe, ironic how ZDnet, a huge international corporation (err, ALOT of mag's published all over the place) was bought out by a company that has now been proven to be working under a piss poor business model, CNet, which has almost always sucked (downloads.com is occasionaly gopod for the rare utility, but that's about it, and only if you are getting stuff for windows 9x)
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Yugh, amen to that, people need to learn, don't run HTTP servers over a 15Kilobyte per second upload connection, yuck!
;)
Some @Home users are actualy blessed with a local ISP that gives them more then 128kbit, but to them I say, run a FTP site instead!
Seriously though, this affects me not in the least because I am not running any sort of server software except for the occasional P2P program. Big whoop, so some more unpatched machines are now officaly fux0red, yugh, so whats new?
I use the Cache more often then the real site itself, with how many sites that have gone under recently alot of content on hosted webpages is now gone. Googles Cache allows for me to get information no matter what has happened to it on the actual site.
As trollish as this is, it is also quite true.
;)
I have a bladder the size of a football
Who needs bodily functions, sleep, food, all for the weak!
New technology.
failing.
because of old technology that we used to have working 30 years ago but can no longer manage.
Heck, back when I first started BBSing (and was foolish enough to give out my real information) one time the Admin told another poster who was flaming me to "shut the fuck up, the guy your talking to is 9 years old and is acting alot more mature and intelligent then you are".
:)
Obviously I have aged a bit since then (heh, Dial-UP BBSs died and all of that), but hell, it tought me a lesson. The best part about being online is that age doesn't matter, maturity does.
Oh, and BTW; I inherited this name from my original BBS days, hehe, not nearly as accuret any more naturaly enough, but hell, its my name and I'm going to keep it
How nice, now just hand over the DVDs and I'll be happy.
::grins:: ) shit, I just want my entertainment damnit! Got a fast ass CPU, got a fast ass Cable Modem, got the best damn fucking 2d card on the market (Matrox, w00t), but nobodies offering up pure entertainment!
Quite frankly I don't care if its acronyme is R.A.P.E (not that -ANY- program would -EVER- use that as an acro,
I'm RIAA free, not a single RIAA disk on me, all independent. Shit folks, I _NEVER_ used MP3.com for illegial file storage anyways, shit, I have just always appreciated the large ammounts of independent bands that they contain.
:) to some Genras that are, err, odd to say the least, shit, they have it all %100 percent independent.
Howling Syn
Celestial Vision
Margaret Davis
Three Dead Trolls In a Baggy
Iria
And so on and so forth.
Shit, everythings there folks, from Italian Power Metal Opera Medieval Celtic music (yes, that is ONE single song, hehe, all of those Genras in it, damnit that song rocks too
well, now they are owned by an arm of the RIAA (member of the RIAA rather) but shit, the artists still rock, and the RIAA member that 0wnz them ain't getting nothin but a few cents profit, shit.
I support independent authors and so should j00!
So. . . .
I have a cable modem.
My ISP doesn't cap my download rates.
You know what 2MBp/s is like on a residential line? Let me tell you, its SWEET!
I can stream 640x480 VHQ QuickTime Video (Very High Quality). I don't even know how high of quality MPEG4 I could stream.
Oh wait, yes I do, DVD quality, thats what! For that matter, I could stream TWO DVD quality movies right on down my line. No reason as to why not, its about a 1gig file for a DVD quality movie (depending on the person doing the judgment of quality of course) in MPEG4. I can download 640megs in under 10 minutes. 2 hours? Heh, easy.
Oh wait.
No online sites GIVE me that type of bandwidth on a regular basis. I can easily take up an entire T1 line (T1s are obsolete now days anyways, their bandwidth goes almost nowheres), and shoot, even a T3 can only handle a very few cable modem users.
OC3 anyone? Even OC3s could not handle the types of crowds that a multimedia website would have to draw in order to sustain itself (if it ever could with the banner ad market being like it is).
Yes, the backbones are crowded, but that is really not even the largest problem. Shit, more backbones can be made easily. @Home has taken this approuch, I get a ping of 30 all up and down the west coast. Shit, there are days when I do not get pings that low on my own LAN.
Why not redefine the networks structure instead? Rather then havine one, two, or even three sites to get a file from, why not have local access hubs where all major multimedia content is stored and passed on to the users requesting it? After all, if 10,000 users on the west coast are requesting the same multimedia stream from Dnver, why not just send that media stream to a local west coast access point and then didstribute it to the consumers from there? You'd likely have to have multiple access points, not just one for the entire west coast would do it, but 2 or 3 would for the coastal states.
Hell, think about it. You'd have less data going across the main pipelines, and the local access points would be distributing the same amount of data if they where just large regional routing centers anyways. (I'm thinking of using the GigaPOPs obviously). The distribution centers would not have reason to charge any sort of money for their service (it could just be implemented as part of the routers) since technicaly they would not be using up any more resources then they would otherwise be using up under the current system. It's like multicasting, but ISPs would actualy cooperate! (yah right).
Shit, getting the data from the distribution point to the end user would then be a cinch. If ISPs do their job correctly (once again, another
'yah right') then their local networks should not be too clogged up. Any half assed broadband provider should at least be offering their consumers 2048kbit service, which is actualy a mere 256KBp/s. While DSL users are pretty much fucked on this one, those of us out there enjoying more lucritive services would be quite happy with the service presented to us.
The first mile has a bandwidth blockage folks. Bigging fatter wires running around isn't going to solve the problem forever. If you can make it so that you don't need quite so many bigger fatter wires, then you have partialy elivated the problem for the long term. After all, a permanite reduction in need, is, well, very -very-long term.
That
and I want
really really -really- fucking want
my high ass end DVD quality videos.
Fuck.
its the 21st century.
I didn't get my flying cars, or my talking intelligent robots, or even a colony on the moon (not to mention mars).
I at least want a fucking video on my computer that I don't have to illegialy pir@te from some source, or that isn't an old 60's B movie. For fucks sake, I have the bandwidth NOW GIVE ME MY DAMN ENTERTAINMENT!
No matter how many home loan ads I see, it still doesn't change the fact that I don't gotta home to take a loan out on, m'kay mr pop up? Shiet, when will these companys learn, undirected piss poor aimed ads DO NOT GAIN SALES. All they do is stick your name in the customers mind SO THAT THEY REMEMBER TO NEVER EVER EVER USE YOUR PRODUCT IF THEY EVER NEED IT. No seriously, get this, surprise surprise, if I don't want your product, if I cannot even USE your product (I really hate that one for that voice messaging while your on the internet, shit, I have a cable modem, what phone line exactly would I free up eh? Shit, at least check the customers IP address against a known listing of broadband ISPs)I'm not going to buy it no matter how hard you try and sell it.
Like selling boots to a man with no legs, kinda useless, heh. Not to mention, it'll piss of the guy with no legs, and it'll still cost you money.
Hehe, actualy I perfer to take the other stance.
Scientist got the idea's right, engineers make a proper implementation
but the *!$#ing bean counter used the cheap ass plastic!
"It was incredibly easy to get DOS to crash"
.exe and run it:)
hehe, just rename a non-executable file to
At least you could turn on a DOS computer and leave it running and reasonably expect that without hardware failures, it wouldn't ever break down. Not like some windows OS's that due to programming gliches actualy crash after so many months, or weeks in some cases, ickies. Or days if your talking Windows95OSR1
I had one with a 2 gallon backpack on it, hehe. Yes, the MoFo was heavy, but it beat the living shit out of ANY super soaker that came near me. The best part is that they are ALOT cheaper then super soakers, and they are built to about the same piss poor quality so that you can expect them to last almost as long.
Amazing how super soakers always managed to leak horribly, break down quickly, or otherwise fuck up.
Thank goodness for Super Glue, I still have an original Super Soaker 50, damnit that thing was a pain to get! Hehe, cost alot of money too, of course I just had to get one the first year that they came out (and then of course nobody wanted to have a water gun fight with me anymore, hehe)
"But most "enterprise" applications are not CPU bound, anyway."
.coms failed, hehe, somebody forgot to save resources :) Imagin if CPU/Electricity/Racks paid for was cut in half. . . .
How lovly, I wonder how much money could be saved if some of those companies went around and optimized their code, I mean surly they are using FAR to much CPU power for what they have to do.
Hell, just look at different BBS software out there. Some of it totaly sux0r, some of it rocks, but none of it can run on a 486, and shit, that is still MASSIVLY overkill for running a mere BBS, theres no reason why 4 or 5 users on a messaging systems should slow the system to a crawl. If corporate software is as bloated percentage wise as mid-range software, then we are all in some serious shit no wonder that so many
Ah, oh well.
Hehe.
To take the purity of logical computer thought and to pervert it with emotions is in itself evil. I refuse to believe that such a horrible thing as FEELING machines would ever take off. I hate the very thought of the mathmatical logical haven of computers being horribly maimed by emotions.
Going to see it tomarrow, but still, I am _ALOT_ less ethusiastic about it now.
Ick, of course ALOT of spammers include HTML pop up banner adds inside of their spams, and if you accidently click on one of their messages. . . .
shiet I hate that, hehe. Of course netscape's HTML disabler only works for e-mail and still leaves it on in Usenet. . . .
(damnit, gotta install a real news reader one of these days:)
Easy actualy, something that dictionary attacks are almost compleatly useless against, and that you will be able to remember no matter how many passwords you may have! Of course constant PW rotation can make this more difficult, but. . . .
:)
:), but the method that I just outlined above is highly useful for those sites that want insansly long passwords, and for ones that want immensly short passwords. You can easily use a shorter class/teacher name for the shorter less security required sites, and longer class/teacher name for the more secure sites.
:) Granted, alot easier then if it was a purly random sequence, but shit, with random sequences, ya got the post it note thing going against ya :)
Take your favorite class, perferably _NOT_ from a major collage or such, pick a high school or middle school class that you took in the past.
Abreviate the subject if necciary or depending on the length needed of the PW. So WorldHistory could become WrldHis. Now then, append the room number that you took it in, say you took it in portable 14.
WrldHisP14 Add the teachers name. WrldHisP14Smith
Tada, NOBODY would guess that password, ever. Not only is it long, but a dictionary attack would have a bitch of a time going through it even if it was programmed to use abbreviations. The more obscure the refrence and class of course, the better the password.
ChmySci278Tugure.
Soot, who'd guess something like that, eh? Hell, notice the cutsie abbrevation of chemistry, instead of the obvious chem or chemi, replace the 'i' with a 'y'.
Once again, such passwords are easy to remember because that are CLOSE TO YOU, but they are something that almost nobody would guess. Shoot, even if they know what scheme your using for your passwords, not only have you taken alot of courses in your life, but there are MANY ways to abbreviate them. Granted if your scheme is known it signifigantly reduces the number of words that a person has to try, and if they get ahold of your class transcripts then they would have a listing of teachers names and such to go along with the class, and the only thing protecting you would be odd spellings and abbrevations, but shit. . . .
If somebody can get ahold of ALL your personal information, then your fucked anyways
I myself of course have a few added twists to that scheme, and I use more then one scheme to come up with my passwords (depending on the security of the site, and my own box of course has a compleatly different PW then anything else that I ever use
Or hell, you can implement this as part of your 1337 u/\/#@ck@b13 password scheme and append a few dozen other phrases to the end of the ones created by my idea. As it is, easy to think up of, easy to remember, and easy to generate new ones as you need to change your passwords. And a total bitch to break
The first occurence of the word "job" on each page I have visited today goes to hotjobs.com, this a massive advertising gimic by hotjobs or what? Hehee, strange at least.
the great satan himself is on my local ABC affiliate (we're local to microsoft, so. . . .)
His speach is just FULL of holes, hehe.
"This ruling upholds a companies right to innovate".
Damnit, come on, this is gonna be hilarious!
I find it highly amusing that between all this praise of Ciscos excellent support services, their training manuals are horribly written, have piss poor grammer, and even the occasional glaring technical error.
:)
You'd figure that Cisco is big enough that they could afford to hire a few decent writers
Yeesh, the GBC's lack of contrast control bothered me for all of about 5 minutes, until I realized that I no longer NEEDED contrast control, I could play in conditions that my original GB could never manage, heh. Hell, even WITH a lot of lights on it, the GB had various issues displaying anything, I often times got cramps from sitting in odd positions trying to play my original GB, now with my GBC I can just whip it out any time, it works perfectly.
:) then I'll purchase one just as soon as somebody steals then sells one to the local pawn shop :)
If the GBA is no differnt from the GBC (which is far brighter then the GB if you ask me, of course that could just be the fact that colors are naturaly lighter then, err, black on black with some gradiated black
So anyways I read that alot of people say the GBA's screen is alot like the GBC's screen, and that the GBC's screen also sucks.
HUH?????????????????
Ok, question. Why didn't nintendo just make the GBA's screen the same as the GameBoy Color's screen? The GBC has NO problems with lighting as far as I can tell, I get perfect results in VERY low light conditions. Even under moderate flourecent lighting I do good, and I can even play it outside on overcast/cloudy days. If the GBA used the exact same screen technology as the GBC but with a slightly enlarged display, I would be able to get the same gazzilion hour battery life out of it, last time I checked it is well over 12hrs, likely closer to 16 (I've left it on overnight and still been able to play it for a few weeks without needing to change the batteries!) and the damn thing just ROCKS!
Why did Nintendo change the type of LCD screen they use?
shit, I kept on saying that all of this .com biz was B.S. but nobody listened to me. Honestly, all of these people rushed to get degrees in their own little limited field of knowledge and now that they are too specalized they are finding out that their opportunities have dried up.
::yawns::
People should really think first before dedicating themselves to a company who's bussiness ideaology involves giving stuff away for free. Honestly, you guys actualy thought that would WORK? Hehe, I still cannot believe it,
I'm sick and tired of all this emphisis on story lines, give us back what we truly liked about startrek, namly the obsessivly large amounts of TNT used in each episode!
Ok ok, I admit it, I was one of the people who begged for "more intelligent story driven" TV plots, but I admit, I was wrong, TV producers cannot do TRUE story plots, so go back to the senseless mindless violence already! Shit, I want stuff blown up damnit! I want Kirk fucking alien woman, and I want insanly powerfull enemies each episode come up and eventualy settle on fighting in hand to hand combat!
I WANT MINDLESS TESTOSTERONE FILLED SENSELESS VIOLENCE BACK ON TV
Hehe, ironic how ZDnet, a huge international corporation (err, ALOT of mag's published all over the place) was bought out by a company that has now been proven to be working under a piss poor business model, CNet, which has almost always sucked (downloads.com is occasionaly gopod for the rare utility, but that's about it, and only if you are getting stuff for windows 9x)