Well, seems to me that before they start trying to practice blowing things up, ala Armagedon, they need to practice landings! Lets just see if this one can avoid any crevices or what ever they didn't find on Mars...
Actualy, the way I see it, Intell made a Mid-grade chip to compete with AMD on the price, and AMD made a low grade chip to compete w/ Intell on the quality... I'm gonna hear it for that one...
Both Suport and instalation, according to the #Suport section... Seesm to me like there are a lot of companies that just miss the point entirly by only suporting RHL. Not that Red Hat hasn't done a lot of good things for the communtiy by way of suport and ease of use, but if RPM is being used instead of tarball, then we have a problem...
Ah, But, if it is leagal for me to own a copy of the offending title by way of an album purchase, BUT, I don't have a MP3 ripping program, is it wrong for you to give me an MP3? If not, then all you are doing is expecting people to be as responcable as you are, and doing them a favor. It's like bumming a smoke to someone, as long a they are of age, you can't get in trouble, but how do you card over then 'net? Just a thought...
AMD is suplying Sonny with xtra chips for PS2's in the US, as Japan won't let them send the weapons grade processors here! Seriously, (so I don't get moded down to far) I think it's just a matter of the good press they've been egtting with the new chips, and a real effort to try to show Intel that they aren't the only game anymore by Manufacturers and the consumers in-the-know.
Fuuny part here, all it would prove is that this is the same not-mafiaboy that they talked to last night, not that it is the "real" one, which was the point. Seems icee was just as lame as anyone in securing his shtuff....
The judge ruled that it was Ok as long as customers knew what site they were dealing with, I haven't seen Tickets.com, but relize that you could still be in trouble if you don't lable the link well enough. People do honestly need to know where they are and who they are dealing with.
Whom ever moderated this up, you're a moron. The link was informative, the text was redundant with the link in place, and the whole damned thing is WAY off topic. FLame me, Down Mod me, what the hell do I care, Just being honest.
How do they plan to regulate the bidding? How do they know what is under-used? This sounds like a bad idea. I personaly think that there are too many users for the airwaves already. I think what we need is to turn down the signals. Relay stations broadcasting weaker signals rather than 1 2 billion watt station. Maybe that's me, but it seems to work well for Sprint's PCS network.
The scarey part is that the only laws they've passed before sayingthis are ones to protect Big Bussiness and Copyrights. They say that they are goin to back out just as Amazon and DoubleClick actualy start ASKING them to get involved so that they don't look like the bad guys. Ok, so Amazon is taking a lot of crap for their practices, so they ask the governemnt to look at changing the rules so that they don't have to back down, but still come off looking like good guys, a few days later, the US government desides that, for the first time sense Peal Harbor, they don't want to be involved in something? Umm, anyone else see a problem. Remember, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean "They" aren't out to get you.
Cost is NOT the only factor involved and it's not the contractor's fault when NASA isn't sure what they want. It's really all the fault of, drum roll please..., The Feds. NASA is rushed into doing all of their projects over the last 5 years in order to show results and receive continued funding. This is why a project like Galileo is still flying and the Mars probes are, well, what ever they are doing now. If you want real results, show support for the space program so that they can plan things better and actualy know what they need before taking bids. Honestly, more money is being put into NASA so that they can launch Satalites to watch us than is being put in for the betterment of mankind. "They just need to get into orbit, not to mars." This about it, if we don't speak up for what we want from the government, then they'll either assume that we don't care, and they can do whatever, or worse, they'll think we actualy aprove of this crap. Speak up, you can never have to many votes in an election.
Anyone else get the idea that MAYBE this thing is up-side-down, or backwards? If it is Poe's, then that would make the Salutation a signature instead. Just a thought. I'm not a cryptographer, but I've watched them on Tv... Hey, new open source project, FreePoe! Set this thing up on Distibuted and lets get cracking! Damn, it's late.
Command lines would be the most intuitive of all, just tell the damned box what you want, BUT, we have the problem of not having one with intuitive commands! People don't want to learn another language to talk to other humans, then deffinitly aren't going to learn one to talk to their computer. Why doesn't some one write a program that real does what you tell it to. Besides, not everything can be "intuitive" in plain text. Some things are done for visual satisfaction, and need a GUI. Why can they all just get along?
BTW, haven't we seen this bit o' news before? I know I've read this artical somewhere...
Not for profit corporations are still companies. The fact that they suposedly do not bring in a profit does not change that they must be profesionaly run. Though, the.net wouldn't really work, unless it was set up for distibution purposes and the like.
Actualy, The concept, while not new by a long shot, is usualy good game. The graphics look a bit cartoon-ish, but, that's doesn't make them bad. Star Fox for SNES kicked ass, and Super Mario Bros. is still classic. Still, what wouldn't I give for a Play Station 2....
This is just too cool. Most Net Cartoonists will post any fan art sent in to them, but this is so much more amussing. The net has been nothing but good for cartoons in general, and if you don't belive it try Big Panda for some sugestions. Well, back to The Bench I can't wait to get started!
I'm not a huge fan of South Park, but damn, I'm glad to see this. Parker has every right to refuse changes made to HIS song. If the Oscar people want it to be used, they should expect that the song they nominate will be the one that gets played. How hypocritical are these people? Do they not see that by honoring South Park, either as a bastion of irreverent comedy, as a movie with exceptional lyrics and music, or most likey as a comercial success that refuses to be ignored, they are taking it for what it is. The one thing I have always liked has been the unwillingness of it's writers to back down from a subject or joke just because it wasn't PC. That's the whole damned point. Honestly, if Trey had rewritten it to be anything other than MORE offencive, I would have been upset, and very shocked....
Why is it that no one even heard of the internet untill the GUI? Why did people flock to M$ Windows? Why are PC's more popular than Macs? Why don't people use Linux? Easy, people like to have choices, with out having to learn anything. They want all the answers handed to them so they can pick the one they like. The problem w/ Macs? No choices, the problem with linux? No answers. The answer, people stay with what they know. No body uses Unix on their desk top. Hell, how many people still use DOS? Or ever knew how at all... People want to Think they are making descisions, they like to think they know what's going on, and they want to think that they have options. If they 1) don't See options to change, and 2) Can't figure out how to do so, they get uncomfortable. Face it, people feel better just knowing that under windows, they canm change the wall paper, much less that when they get sold a new printer, it will work when plugged in. Untill Linux manages that level of user security, it has no chance. Untill the user can make changes with out having to code, and not have to worry about how badly they've messed the whole thing up, they won't move.
As Much as I hate to stick up for the U.S. government in anything, I think I have to point out that that $4000 hammer that the millitary pays for means that when the R&D for that hammer is done, we only pay $19.95. Now I admit that I can't see an advance in Hammer tech that's worth a couple of thousand dollars, but this is the same budgeting that has given us Velcro, GPS, and Passenger Jets. I'm not saying it's always benificial, but we'd complain about not having Digital Celular if CDMA wirless tech hadn't been developed w/ tax money. So, as much as I think that there is a lot of waste, and that there is no need to tax sales in the first place, as they tax the money on the way in to my pocket already, lets not forget where the money goes. Hell, I think R&D is the best thing we get out of the militairy these days.
Well, I admit, playing the Female often has speed advantages in Console games, in RolePlay games, it's a whole different stratagy. I play Female characters on MUDs often times when I first start because the Geeks who run them, much less the guys who make up the majority of the player base, will help out a newbie female. Face it, most guys are in the game to be better than all the other guys, and we all know that being level 37 is nothing compaired to being level 20, but having the girl. Me, I always try to help all the newbies, just so I don't end up looking like a jerk when I find out that she's a guy gender banding for fun.
"Navagation"- We all know how the US daily paper is laid out. The section titles change, the content doesn't Content- Updated twice a day in large markets, and writen from a local stand point. They tell me, in-line and up front some of the ways that this info will effect me. Easy to read- Lets face it, these things are writen to the level many of us were reading at in 4th grade. And then they go on to explain every acronym and technical term. I admit, they don't give enough info, but they make it really easy to go and look up online. Dependable- There is a new paper every morning and after noon. The info is todays, though not up-to-the-second, and is *hopefully* as acurate and dependable as any website, with sourses sited and authors noted if any problems come up. And Finaly, They Have Money... They can afford to run sindicated Comics and Dear Abby. It's taken me quite a while to find Dave Bary posted online. The news papers, unfortunatly don't seem to catch that this is the one place that the Net won't catch up on for a while. Abby and Anne Landers are both rich, and that's not off of my 50 cents a day, that's off of Millions of people buying thousands of papers that carry their collumns. Lets see slashdot match that.
Slashdot Mirror
-Earthman
I'm gonna hear it for that one...
-Earthman
-Earthman
Just a thought...
-Earthman
Seriously, (so I don't get moded down to far) I think it's just a matter of the good press they've been egtting with the new chips, and a real effort to try to show Intel that they aren't the only game anymore by Manufacturers and the consumers in-the-know.
-Earthman
-Earthman
-Earthman
-Earthman
When talk is cheap, silence becomes expencive.
-Earthman
Ok, so Amazon is taking a lot of crap for their practices, so they ask the governemnt to look at changing the rules so that they don't have to back down, but still come off looking like good guys, a few days later, the US government desides that, for the first time sense Peal Harbor, they don't want to be involved in something? Umm, anyone else see a problem. Remember, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean "They" aren't out to get you.
-Earthman
This about it, if we don't speak up for what we want from the government, then they'll either assume that we don't care, and they can do whatever, or worse, they'll think we actualy aprove of this crap. Speak up, you can never have to many votes in an election.
-Earthman
Hey, new open source project, FreePoe! Set this thing up on Distibuted and lets get cracking! Damn, it's late.
-Earthman
BTW, haven't we seen this bit o' news before? I know I've read this artical somewhere...
-Earthman
-Earthman
-Earthman
Well, back to The Bench I can't wait to get started!
-Earthman
How hypocritical are these people? Do they not see that by honoring South Park, either as a bastion of irreverent comedy, as a movie with exceptional lyrics and music, or most likey as a comercial success that refuses to be ignored, they are taking it for what it is. The one thing I have always liked has been the unwillingness of it's writers to back down from a subject or joke just because it wasn't PC. That's the whole damned point.
Honestly, if Trey had rewritten it to be anything other than MORE offencive, I would have been upset, and very shocked....
-Earthman
Easy, people like to have choices, with out having to learn anything. They want all the answers handed to them so they can pick the one they like. The problem w/ Macs? No choices, the problem with linux? No answers. The answer, people stay with what they know.
No body uses Unix on their desk top. Hell, how many people still use DOS? Or ever knew how at all... People want to Think they are making descisions, they like to think they know what's going on, and they want to think that they have options. If they 1) don't See options to change, and 2) Can't figure out how to do so, they get uncomfortable.
Face it, people feel better just knowing that under windows, they canm change the wall paper, much less that when they get sold a new printer, it will work when plugged in. Untill Linux manages that level of user security, it has no chance. Untill the user can make changes with out having to code, and not have to worry about how badly they've messed the whole thing up, they won't move.
-Earthman
-Earthman
Me, I always try to help all the newbies, just so I don't end up looking like a jerk when I find out that she's a guy gender banding for fun.
-Earthman
Content- Updated twice a day in large markets, and writen from a local stand point. They tell me, in-line and up front some of the ways that this info will effect me.
Easy to read- Lets face it, these things are writen to the level many of us were reading at in 4th grade. And then they go on to explain every acronym and technical term. I admit, they don't give enough info, but they make it really easy to go and look up online.
Dependable- There is a new paper every morning and after noon. The info is todays, though not up-to-the-second, and is *hopefully* as acurate and dependable as any website, with sourses sited and authors noted if any problems come up. And Finaly, They Have Money... They can afford to run sindicated Comics and Dear Abby. It's taken me quite a while to find Dave Bary posted online. The news papers, unfortunatly don't seem to catch that this is the one place that the Net won't catch up on for a while. Abby and Anne Landers are both rich, and that's not off of my 50 cents a day, that's off of Millions of people buying thousands of papers that carry their collumns. Lets see slashdot match that.
-Earthman