Heh, i remember geowrite and geopaint for my c-64, i used that computer until i got my brand new pentium pro 180 which i'm still using, yeah i know, i used both for far too long, but i've never had any of this thing called money, so i use what i can get.
Yeah, it would be a tough one if china were to mobilize it's working class into a war machine, but you've forgotten one thing, they have to get here first.
I've got to say wait a few months for the pc graphics companies to release their next gen cards, which will wipe the floor with the dreamcast, and i'm sorry, but the dreamcast does not have better sound than my Sb live with 4 speakers and a sub.
That's the problem with consoles, they come out with the current top of the line graphics chips and then 6 months later they get left in the dust as companies produce better chips which you can then slot into your PC.
As far as terminus goes, if it is all that the reviewer says it is, it may be the game of my dreams. I've been waiting my whole life for a game where i could design a ship from scratch and then fly it around the solar system. I've been teased a couple of times (10th planet, the Babylon 5 space sim) but this one looks like it'll actually make it.
I for one really don't care if it's a book about scientology or carries hidden messages that will make me fall to my knees before them. I thought that the book was really cool, it was alittle odd at times (like the main character being named Johnny Goodboy) but it was still a good fluff read. It didn't really have any depth behind it, but it was a fun rolicking adventure, there were some cool battles and alot of stuff blew up.
Please excuse the blocky rantish tone but I work the night shift (9-9) so it's kinda late (early??) for me, my brain starts short circuiting around 5:30 or so.
monogamous married hetero male huh? I knew a gay guy once who was monogamous and was at one point even married, so maybe you're not off the hook yet.
Back on topic, maybe this would be a good chance for the tech community to be heard by the government, i don't know how vocal the Great British LBGT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual) community is, but if it's as vocal there as it is in the states then maybe this would be a good chance for the tech community to let the government of Great Britain know that they had a clue card like a previous poster had mentioned.
Just because you have your MCSE doesn't mean that you have a bad job or are a moron, i plan to get my MCSE to help my career along (as soon as Microsoft straightens out the Win2000 crap). I'm only 20, working as an NT sitter right now, i do aspire to bigger things, getting my MCSE just happens to be along that path (albiet really early on that path, followed quickly by my cisco certs.)
How much do one of those cost anyway? sounds like something that might be worth the spare parts, i'd love to take one of those and the i-opener and do some cool stuff.
today's car would deliver 1000 hp, get 100 mpg, and cost less than $1000. While it doesn't fit those specs, the new honda hybrid car (i forget the name) gets about 80 mpg, and costs around 16-18k It's also easier to make a computer faster by throwing more transistors on a chip, but to fit more engine in a car you have to start removing passenger space, and then the car wouldn't sell as well.
Sorry, i forgot, no more entertainment in the public library, get rid of all those pesky fiction books, they're not necessary, or those magazines that aren't packed with current world events, who needs those.
I never said anything about marketed and targeted entertainment, some of us can find entertainment without the mass media's help.
But you can request that the library get a copy of brave new world, or whatever else you want to read and chances are, if the library has the room and the funding, they'll put it in their next book order, they are there to serve the people and that includes you. Alot of librarys do subscribe to magazines with pornographic content, you just have to request it. The bottom line is the library is obliged to give you access to any source of information they have in their power to procure, and if the library has a computer with internet access then yes it is obliged to give you unrestricted access. Remember they are there to serve the people that fund them, and you and I are those people.
The town library is a place for information, not just a research center, it's there to inform and entertain the town. If you want a research center, then go to a university library, they are the ones that are there for research purposes.
Clicking mindlessly on solitare does not educate. Playing Duke nuke'm does not educate either. Funny, i played an awful lot of duke nukem and i learned a great deal about FPS architecture and how games are put together from it. It doesn't matter what you have set in front of you, it could be a TV that plays the worst drivel out there, or magazines and newspapers that report only FUD and you can still learn, it's all in the desire, not in the media.
but if you were to run the same amount of DC through the wires as we run AC, not only would you have to have many more gnerators (i think i read somewhere that NYC would require one on every block) but forget interfering with the operation of the heart, it would probably just blow it out of your chest
I don't have a problem with this stuff being out for the teens, it's the 6 and 7 year olds that really shouldn't be given the advanced bestiality courses IMHO. Yeah but how often do you let your 5-10 year old wander around public places unattended? would you send little 7 year old Suzie out alone to the library where she can go online unsupervised?
I know that at least one video renal place had such a system in place. Parents could add their children to their account, but there was a flag indicating that the child was restricted from renting rated R movies. It was quite simple. But it's a whole lot easier to filter 30, 40, even 100 tapes with a flag already implemented by an industry standard than to try and filter (insert insane number here) different web sites that a parent doesn't want a child to see.
One point here that alot of people seem to miss, is if little Johnny wants to see some porn, he'll find it. How many people here, who wanted to see pornography before they were 18, never actually got a chance to see it? How many who could get ahold of porn while you were under age did not need the internet to get it? You can censor librarys all you want but the only people it is going to help are the ones who only want their ideas seen.
But the ISS is a stepping stone, although you did bring up a good point about not being in geosyncronous orbit, it will allow the construction of larger vehicles to go to the moon/mars/wherever. As long as your out of the atmosphere it'll take a fraction of the fuel to get from here to there.
they're probably aiming to stop, or slow, the offensive material that is flooding the internet I seriously doubt that racist material is flooding the internet, I don't think the internet can even be "flooded" by one source, it's just too large. and besides, even if it was flooded, it doesn't mean you have to read it, that's like saying that some of the books in the library are offensive therefor they must be burned (an idea that i find beyond repulsive).
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Heh, i remember geowrite and geopaint for my c-64, i used that computer until i got my brand new pentium pro 180 which i'm still using, yeah i know, i used both for far too long, but i've never had any of this thing called money, so i use what i can get.
Yeah, it would be a tough one if china were to mobilize it's working class into a war machine, but you've forgotten one thing, they have to get here first.
I've got to say wait a few months for the pc graphics companies to release their next gen cards, which will wipe the floor with the dreamcast, and i'm sorry, but the dreamcast does not have better sound than my Sb live with 4 speakers and a sub.
That's the problem with consoles, they come out with the current top of the line graphics chips and then 6 months later they get left in the dust as companies produce better chips which you can then slot into your PC.
As far as terminus goes, if it is all that the reviewer says it is, it may be the game of my dreams. I've been waiting my whole life for a game where i could design a ship from scratch and then fly it around the solar system. I've been teased a couple of times (10th planet, the Babylon 5 space sim) but this one looks like it'll actually make it.
I for one really don't care if it's a book about scientology or carries hidden messages that will make me fall to my knees before them. I thought that the book was really cool, it was alittle odd at times (like the main character being named Johnny Goodboy) but it was still a good fluff read. It didn't really have any depth behind it, but it was a fun rolicking adventure, there were some cool battles and alot of stuff blew up.
Please excuse the blocky rantish tone but I work the night shift (9-9) so it's kinda late (early??) for me, my brain starts short circuiting around 5:30 or so.
monogamous married hetero male huh? I knew a gay guy once who was monogamous and was at one point even married, so maybe you're not off the hook yet.
Back on topic, maybe this would be a good chance for the tech community to be heard by the government, i don't know how vocal the Great British LBGT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual) community is, but if it's as vocal there as it is in the states then maybe this would be a good chance for the tech community to let the government of Great Britain know that they had a clue card like a previous poster had mentioned.
Just because you have your MCSE doesn't mean that you have a bad job or are a moron, i plan to get my MCSE to help my career along (as soon as Microsoft straightens out the Win2000 crap). I'm only 20, working as an NT sitter right now, i do aspire to bigger things, getting my MCSE just happens to be along that path (albiet really early on that path, followed quickly by my cisco certs.)
I never felt that vinyl sounded better, i prefer the crisp clear sound of cd's to the scratchy "warmer" sound of lp's.
How much do one of those cost anyway? sounds like something that might be worth the spare parts, i'd love to take one of those and the i-opener and do some cool stuff.
Maybe they store all their data on an EMC Celerra
I would hope that by the time our sun finally finishes it's life cycle we as a race are long gone from this solar system.
today's car would deliver 1000 hp, get 100 mpg, and cost less than $1000.
While it doesn't fit those specs, the new honda hybrid car (i forget the name) gets about 80 mpg, and costs around 16-18k
It's also easier to make a computer faster by throwing more transistors on a chip, but to fit more engine in a car you have to start removing passenger space, and then the car wouldn't sell as well.
Sorry, i forgot, no more entertainment in the public library, get rid of all those pesky fiction books, they're not necessary, or those magazines that aren't packed with current world events, who needs those.
I never said anything about marketed and targeted entertainment, some of us can find entertainment without the mass media's help.
But you can request that the library get a copy of brave new world, or whatever else you want to read and chances are, if the library has the room and the funding, they'll put it in their next book order, they are there to serve the people and that includes you. Alot of librarys do subscribe to magazines with pornographic content, you just have to request it.
The bottom line is the library is obliged to give you access to any source of information they have in their power to procure, and if the library has a computer with internet access then yes it is obliged to give you unrestricted access. Remember they are there to serve the people that fund them, and you and I are those people.
The town library is a place for information, not just a research center, it's there to inform and entertain the town. If you want a research center, then go to a university library, they are the ones that are there for research purposes.
Clicking mindlessly on solitare does not educate. Playing Duke nuke'm does not educate either.
Funny, i played an awful lot of duke nukem and i learned a great deal about FPS architecture and how games are put together from it.
It doesn't matter what you have set in front of you, it could be a TV that plays the worst drivel out there, or magazines and newspapers that report only FUD and you can still learn, it's all in the desire, not in the media.
but if you were to run the same amount of DC through the wires as we run AC, not only would you have to have many more gnerators (i think i read somewhere that NYC would require one on every block) but forget interfering with the operation of the heart, it would probably just blow it out of your chest
yeah but DC is just as dangerous, and if it were to replace alternating current it would be even more dangerous tha AC.
Yeah, all he did was produce incredible break throughs in energy transmission, like radio, radar, stuff like that. Pretty minute stuff huh
(sorry i'd list more but it's the end of my shift and i'm alittle tired)
I don't have a problem with this stuff being out for the teens, it's the 6 and 7 year olds that really shouldn't be given the advanced bestiality courses IMHO.
Yeah but how often do you let your 5-10 year old wander around public places unattended? would you send little 7 year old Suzie out alone to the library where she can go online unsupervised?
I know that at least one video renal place had such a system in place. Parents could add their children to their account, but there was a flag indicating that the child was restricted from renting rated R movies. It was quite simple.
But it's a whole lot easier to filter 30, 40, even 100 tapes with a flag already implemented by an industry standard than to try and filter (insert insane number here) different web sites that a parent doesn't want a child to see.
One point here that alot of people seem to miss, is if little Johnny wants to see some porn, he'll find it. How many people here, who wanted to see pornography before they were 18, never actually got a chance to see it? How many who could get ahold of porn while you were under age did not need the internet to get it? You can censor librarys all you want but the only people it is going to help are the ones who only want their ideas seen.
If the stuff sucks so much then don't read it.
But the ISS is a stepping stone, although you did bring up a good point about not being in geosyncronous orbit, it will allow the construction of larger vehicles to go to the moon/mars/wherever. As long as your out of the atmosphere it'll take a fraction of the fuel to get from here to there.
ok so i can't spell or hit the preview button tonight.
Deffinatly an excellent anime, i was lucky enough to get my hands on a subed copy. I almost got emotional during the launch scene.
they're probably aiming to stop, or slow, the offensive material that is flooding the internet
I seriously doubt that racist material is flooding the internet, I don't think the internet can even be "flooded" by one source, it's just too large. and besides, even if it was flooded, it doesn't mean you have to read it, that's like saying that some of the books in the library are offensive therefor they must be burned (an idea that i find beyond repulsive).