There was once a time when only those with high social status knew how to write. I believe that is still the case. By virtue of the internet, we tend to get explosed to many different people of varying degrees of literary talent but those who tend to write better than others seem to get more respect.
When I write something that I hope will last, something that I want posterity reading, I usually do a grammar check. But if I'm just trying to flame someone on a web forum, I don't even bother to capitalize.
I think moving to the little discs was the biggest mistake they made (next to the Nintendo 64).
Part of the charm of a Nintendo was that you could let your kids play it. Because they used cartriges, the system had fewer moving parts and there was less to break. Cartriges are obviously more durable than CD's . ..
But when the rugrats slobber, sneeze, puke, or even handle the gamecube stuff, you can run into trouble.
Okay, inhabitants of Earth, listen up. Your kid plays Grand Theft Auto. Your kid goes out and shoots-up a car, cop, or random person. You suspect that there is a relationship between the two. You may even think that the game is responsible. I personally disagree with you -- but my opinion doesn't count anymore than yours does.
So maybe you're right. Maybe the video game made him do it. But if it is true, then you've just proven that the problem is far deeper than an immoral piece of electronic entertainment.
If your children (and you) have such weak moral senses that a video game (of all measly things) can shift your sense of right or wrong so dramatically, you have proven that you are nothing other than an automaton -- a creature without sentience, self-awareness, or soul. You are a genetically engineered, biochemical robot planted amongst the human race for the sole purpose of allowing the Narxblosh to capture/conquer our species [specifically, our females]. You are a weapon against humanity.
Your frivilous law suits are a blatant declaration of who you are. Those of us who resist the Narxblosh invasion will see these acts as an open invitation to eliminate you or use you as a means of eliminating your higher-ranking officers. Do not question the power or resolve of the true human resistance. We will do whatever it takes to purge the Narxblosh perversion from the Earth.
Technical support is a draining experience. I worked in techsupport for a while. The company I worked for had a 110% turn-over rate for employees. If they needed 20 people to keep the call-floor running, they would hire 22 people every quarter to keep up with the amount of quitting that happened: It's that miserable listening/talking-to people who are predisposed to hate everything related to computers (including you).
You can make a killing in tech support -- assuming you don't kill yourself before your first paycheck.
Back in the day, the only games you ever found on a Unix system were the hacks/hobbies of the system administrators.
The Personal Computer is where we disovered commercial game software. Until recently, the line between Unix and the PC was very distinct.
Linux is torn between the Unix world and the PC world. On every turn we see people trying to pull it entirely one way or the other: Linux on the Desktop! Linux as the uberserver for $dirt!
There must be a boundary before we can set expectations.
After having worked with McAfee, I can honestly say that there is a difference between scan engines and it is relevant to the OS and the latest viruses. I still don't think that purchasing a virus scan is a very good idea though.
The only sure-fire way to protect yourself from viruses is to frequently back up your data so you can easily blast an image when something goes awry.
I usually make up nifty names for my projects like "Bumfis" and "Horkamucka." It'd be a real streatch to sue me for naming an illustrator program "Horkamucka."
Take, for example, ID. They released the source to DOOM, but still control the.WAD files of the original games. You can make a cool game open source and still control shtuff. Just separate the source and the really important data.
. . . but whys hould I care? Napster sucks anyway! GNUTELLA is better. AudioGalaxy is better! So let's stop fretting over whether Napster will live or die---and let's start doing what we really care about---exchanging information.
Scifi freaks who are also memebers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints think Galactica is kinda funny since a lot of their stuff is stolen from religious stories/practice. "Council of the Twelve" and other such likenesses. It's been speculated that one or more of the producers was Mormon.
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There was once a time when only those with high social status knew how to write. I believe that is still the case. By virtue of the internet, we tend to get explosed to many different people of varying degrees of literary talent but those who tend to write better than others seem to get more respect.
When I write something that I hope will last, something that I want posterity reading, I usually do a grammar check. But if I'm just trying to flame someone on a web forum, I don't even bother to capitalize.
I think moving to the little discs was the biggest mistake they made (next to the Nintendo 64).
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Part of the charm of a Nintendo was that you could let your kids play it. Because they used cartriges, the system had fewer moving parts and there was less to break. Cartriges are obviously more durable than CD's . .
But when the rugrats slobber, sneeze, puke, or even handle the gamecube stuff, you can run into trouble.
It's somebody lighting a cigarette while in a cloaked romulan warbird. One of the old kinds. . . with the shoddy cloaking devices.
Don't you mean "My midichlorians tell me. . ." ?
Stolen from the Ishpeckian Network.
The Transmeta logo looks like the swirly thingy for the Dreamcast.
Technical support is a draining experience. I worked in techsupport for a while. The company I worked for had a 110% turn-over rate for employees. If they needed 20 people to keep the call-floor running, they would hire 22 people every quarter to keep up with the amount of quitting that happened: It's that miserable listening/talking-to people who are predisposed to hate everything related to computers (including you).
You can make a killing in tech support -- assuming you don't kill yourself before your first paycheck.
You could probably make a killing just selling them some decent bandwidth.
Back in the day, the only games you ever found on a Unix system were the hacks/hobbies of the system administrators.
The Personal Computer is where we disovered commercial game software. Until recently, the line between Unix and the PC was very distinct.
Linux is torn between the Unix world and the PC world. On every turn we see people trying to pull it entirely one way or the other: Linux on the Desktop! Linux as the uberserver for $dirt!
There must be a boundary before we can set expectations.
I, for one, like the different options we have in terms of desktop environments. I don't want either KDE or GNOME to go away.
I think the different desktop environments are important the way it's important to have variation in the gene pool.
We can only attain perfection through variety.
After having worked with McAfee, I can honestly say that there is a difference between scan engines and it is relevant to the OS and the latest viruses. I still don't think that purchasing a virus scan is a very good idea though.
The only sure-fire way to protect yourself from viruses is to frequently back up your data so you can easily blast an image when something goes awry.
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I usually make up nifty names for my projects like "Bumfis" and "Horkamucka." It'd be a real streatch to sue me for naming an illustrator program "Horkamucka."
Say farewell to fair-weather friends.
Take, for example, ID. They released the source to DOOM, but still control the .WAD files of the original games. You can make a cool game open source and still control shtuff. Just separate the source and the really important data.
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.CBN for CowboyNeal?
"Ishpeck to bridge, we've got a subspace quazi-spectral anomoly here---I'd like to run a level one diagnostic on the ship's sensor array."
We shouldn't have to pay for 1's and 0's.
GNU needs to break it up, if you ask me.
If that's the case, there are only a handful of truly intelligent humans in all of existence.
Scifi freaks who are also memebers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints think Galactica is kinda funny since a lot of their stuff is stolen from religious stories/practice. "Council of the Twelve" and other such likenesses. It's been speculated that one or more of the producers was Mormon.
We bog the supreme court down way too much with inane disputes as it is.
This reminds me of the latest episode of The Maggott Show. We are, after all, new to these interstellar politics things.