Fry's shrinkage weenies come asking about my backpack, I wiggle it in their face and tell them "Take a look. I have nothing to hide."
The fsckers at the Burbank Frys have stopped hassling me ever since I got the transparent backpack.
The person who opens a store directly competing with Frys but with less attitude would prolly bury them. I try to get computer stuff at either the swaps or at Rogers Systems in Valencia...I hate giving Frys money I could give to nicer folks.
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This is extremely interesting. Either candidate who wins will NOT have a mandate. And the House and Senate is looking like it has been in the past two years...almost dead even.
Looks like 4 years of gridlock await us, folks. And you know what? That ain't bad. It is not likely that there will be many sweeping changes, wild programs, or boondoggles in the next few years. Either way it is unlikely that either one will be able to get judicial nominees approved.
In short: we're in for more of the same. Status quo. No matter who gets in.
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This whole topic has become a very good example of what is wrong with Slashdot. I am amazed but not surprised at the 1950s-throwback nature of the vast majority of posters here. "Have wifey stay at home" seems to be the solution everyone is proposing. Yeah, right. Even on coders' salaries that is usually impossible. Get your fsckn heads out of TV Land and get real.
Meanwhile, if you want a SERIOUS discussion of this issue, visit us at http://msgeek.org/ . All the content, half the grits, and none of that annoying testosterone aftertaste.
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Hey...WE WANT TO SEE PIX!!!.JPGs!.GIFs! whatever, I just want to see a FUR LINED MAC for myself!!! ----
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My buddy Nubs has a box that looks just like that one, except it used to be a tower case. He just runs it wide open like that, and it seems to do just fine...no heat probs or anything.
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As for myself, I have an Inwin full-tower that was decorated by a guy who was a layout artist on the "Dilbert" animated series. One side is "Dilbert At Home" the other side is "Dilbert at work." Here's the link to see those side panels.
Genndy Tartakovsky drew Dexter on one of my other PC cases. I would also love to do a full hot-rod paint job on an LC-class Mac case and put an LC475 logic board into it with a full 68040 inside. Flames and everything. That would rock.
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Well, in the olden days Thinkpad meant the gold standard. Then IBM started outsourcing their manufacturing to ACER, and the quality dropped precipitously. I still love my 365X...I am going to partially de-assimilate it from the Redmond Collective and throw on a highly customized install of Mandrake 7.2...it's going to rock after that. The iSeries of Thinkpads bit the bag, and now they are having rough times with the new series of Thinkpads.
Right now Apple is making the best laptops...the iBook kicks ass. I hate to say it, but Dell's Latitude series is hot too. But oh for the days when IBM made expensive fsckn laptops which were worth every penny.
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because when I looked at your site with IE4 Mac the Intel logo was right where it was supposed to be.
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Set Emily Litella mode OFF.
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Hey, I'd enter the contest if I could win a prize like this!
I grew up in the '70s. I thought by now everyone would have a flying saucer parked in their garage. Where's that damn jet pack they were promising us? Where's my vacation on the Moon?
Goddess, the Year 2000 is way fsckn boring compared to what Sci-Fi was predicting...
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It will never happen. I am the Listmama for ACID Casualties Division, a mailing list/unofficial user group for ACID.
Every month or so someone asks the question "When is ACID going to be ported to Mac?" or "When is ACID going to be ported to Linux?" Hell, I would LOVE to run ACID on my G3. But Sonic Foundry is 1000% behind Windows...not surprising considering the guy who founded SF wrote some of the multimedia code underpinning Windows95.
This is the reason why Sonic Foundry products run so well under that unseemly mess known as Win32...the Foundry probably knows all the hidden hooks in the Win32 API.
You have to give SF credit...they do make some of the best audio apps out there. Vegas is a ProTools killer. ACID doesn't have anything that compares to it on any other platform. Sound Forge is still the gold standard for stereo audio work. They have geniuses like Chris Moulios banging out awesome code.
And they, unlike others, usually come out with bargain-basement versions of all their technology. ACIDMusic is less than $100...more like $60 if you look in the right places. They just came out with a cut-down version of VegasVideo geared towards people editing their own home movies that probably would also be splendid for those doing garage-level filmmaking...also under $100. And Sound Forge XP is almost as capable as the full version of Sound Forge and costs less to buy than the low-end version of CoolEdit costs to register.
As much as I am rooting for Open Source and alternative OSes to kick Redmond's butt, I still have to give props to the Foundry.
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Uhhh...yeah. Dems showed how much they were "for" the 1st Amendment when Tipper Gore got record labelling in place. Remember how much eMpTyV cried and moaned about that?
This is why I have been suspicious of Gore from day one. I remember the "Washington Wives" hearings. I remember all this crap.
Go to a Wal-Mart or a K-Mart or a Target. Try to find an album that has the "Parental Warning: Explicit Lyrics" sticker on it. C'mon, I dare ya.
Can't find one? Why? Because it's against company policy for Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target to stock albums that have the sticker. Instant censorship, folks! You want that Eminem album? You'll probably find it at Sam Goody, but not at those stores.
Do you really want this to happen to the Internet? Then elect either Gush or Bore. Actually Nader is also for 'Net censorship so he's out too. And Buchanan? Fuhgettaboutit!
I suggest that we give pornsites a new type of extension. Try pronouncing www.porn.com using a heavily overdone Scandinavian accent and you will know what I mean
All kidding aside, you know that there are new Top Level Domains that can be use to isolate pr0n sites in their own "red light districts." Both.XXX and.SEX have been proposed to ICANN. Most pr0n site companies actually don't want to have minors enter their sites. I predict that when these TLDs come online there will be a stampede by pr0n sites to grab them. Currently the Adult Check system and other credit card age verification systems like them are being used by most sites.
Fearless prediction: when.XXX and.SEX become legit TLDs, much of this problem will be solved. And some wags who post here regularly will have goat.sex to play with. Won't that be fun?;-)
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It's obvious. Neither of these guys are friends of a free and open Internet. Gore's idea of a "parental information page" generated on the ISP side popping up every time a web page pops up is incredibly silly and would require lots of human hours to create. How many pages are there on the World Wide Web? Billions? How many humans would it take to review these billions of pages and write up parental information on all of them? For shame, Gore, you know better.
This is why I'm voting Libertarian this time around. I cannot simply hold my nose and vote Gore because he'll probably choose less offensive Supreme Court nominees...the fscker's dangerous and I've known that since Tipper was holding court over the Parents Music Resource Center.
Bush is not only dangerous, but dumb as a stone boat too. I'm moving to Vancouver if he gets in.
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Why is it that every time a woman participates in a male-dominated forum, she's assumed to be a man? Really, now. It's bad enough that you're in the vast majority here; you don't have to persecute the few of us in the minority, and it pisses me off.
As a real, live female who has never hidden this fact from/. posters, I have to say amen to that. It is indeed bad that there isn't much gender balance here...I suspect it's because of the pissing contests and testosterone damaged trolling that goes on here.
If it wasn't for the fact that Slashcode is so fsckn opaque, I might have been able to suggest an alternative. If there are any grrl geeks within the sound of this post who want to volunteer to help me untangle my install of Slashcode 1.0.7 on Slashhosting.com, please get through my spamblock (it's easy, just change a couple of spelled-out punctuation marks) and email me right away. Because if I don't get the damn thing working soon, I'm going to cut my losses and cancel my account.
Until and unless I can get my slashsite for grrl geeks up and running, I suggest more, not less grrl geek participation in/. And even if and when the site gets running I suggest continuing to participate here.
And for Goddess' sake, don't fsckn hide your gender! Show it proudly. Yes, there are grrl geeks out there. We exist. We stand proudly and say "I am."
Why should I get a job when theres welfare, SSI, social security, etc etc? Just sit back and leech from the people who do pay taxes or trip over your shoelaces and sue nike for millions.
Its like the classic bumper sticker "keep working, millions on welfare depend on you".
Typical right-wing claptrap. Yeah, go on Welfare, but bear in mind that 5 years hence it will ALL BE GONE and you will either have to get a J-O-B or go on "workfare" and work menial jobs for your check. Actually in some states you have to work menial make-work jobs for your check regardless.
And the thing about the "NEW" welfare is that once your 5-year allotment is gone, it's gone. Forever. You can only take 5 years of welfare in your entire lifetime. After that, it's pretty much sink or swim.
The problem with so-called "communities" on the Internet is that they're really just associations. Clubs. Chowder societies. Nothing passes between the members but talk, and while talk is an important part of community it's not the end. The ends of community are responsibility, stewardship, and protection of shared resources.
OK, let me tell you about community on the Internet.
About five months ago, I got an email from one of the people who frequent the same IRC channel as I do. It was a suicide note. It was time-stamped about an hour before I received it.
I dropped everything and fired up my IRC client, and flooded the channel with her suicide note. We didn't know her exact address, but we knew roughly the town where she lived. I got on the horn to 911 in her community. It took some figuring but we were able to figure out which school the girl went to, and then the authorities were able to find out where she lived from her HS's records. The paramedics were able to find the girl in time and she is alive and well now.
The upshot is that now I and a couple of the other people who frequent this chat are now friends in meatspace with the girl...I'm sort of like her adopted aunt. If it wasn't for email and IRC this girl would probably be dead by now.
So don't fsckn tell me there is no such thing as real community in Cyberspace. Don't fsckn tell me that people in Cyberspace don't take responsibility for each other. This is not a fsckn country club or...what was your turn of phrase...chowder society. This is real.
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Fry's shrinkage weenies come asking about my backpack, I wiggle it in their face and tell them "Take a look. I have nothing to hide."
The fsckers at the Burbank Frys have stopped hassling me ever since I got the transparent backpack.
The person who opens a store directly competing with Frys but with less attitude would prolly bury them. I try to get computer stuff at either the swaps or at Rogers Systems in Valencia...I hate giving Frys money I could give to nicer folks.
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This is fsckn SCARY!!!
TP for my bunghole indeed. Tonight has got to be one of the most surreal nights I have ever lived through.
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Do you need TP?
Do you need Olio?
Better hide the sugar and caffeine from this guy!
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Looks like 4 years of gridlock await us, folks. And you know what? That ain't bad. It is not likely that there will be many sweeping changes, wild programs, or boondoggles in the next few years. Either way it is unlikely that either one will be able to get judicial nominees approved.
In short: we're in for more of the same. Status quo. No matter who gets in.
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Meanwhile, if you want a SERIOUS discussion of this issue, visit us at http://msgeek.org/ . All the content, half the grits, and none of that annoying testosterone aftertaste.
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Hey...WE WANT TO SEE PIX!!! .JPGs! .GIFs! whatever, I just want to see a FUR LINED MAC for myself!!!
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As for myself, I have an Inwin full-tower that was decorated by a guy who was a layout artist on the "Dilbert" animated series. One side is "Dilbert At Home" the other side is "Dilbert at work." Here's the link to see those side panels.
Genndy Tartakovsky drew Dexter on one of my other PC cases. I would also love to do a full hot-rod paint job on an LC-class Mac case and put an LC475 logic board into it with a full 68040 inside. Flames and everything. That would rock.
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Hey, I LIKE my 365X!!! Nobody talks shit about my Li'l Blue...except me!!!
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56% over here! I 0wn you, d00d!!! ;-)
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Right now Apple is making the best laptops...the iBook kicks ass. I hate to say it, but Dell's Latitude series is hot too. But oh for the days when IBM made expensive fsckn laptops which were worth every penny.
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because when I looked at your site with IE4 Mac the Intel logo was right where it was supposed to be.
Set Emily Litella mode ON:
Never mind!
Set Emily Litella mode OFF.
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...to realize that someone just HaX0red your Topic image for Intel and replaced it with one for X-Drive...
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Hey, I'd enter the contest if I could win a prize like this!
I grew up in the '70s. I thought by now everyone would have a flying saucer parked in their garage. Where's that damn jet pack they were promising us? Where's my vacation on the Moon?
Goddess, the Year 2000 is way fsckn boring compared to what Sci-Fi was predicting...
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It will never happen. I am the Listmama for ACID Casualties Division, a mailing list/unofficial user group for ACID.
Every month or so someone asks the question "When is ACID going to be ported to Mac?" or "When is ACID going to be ported to Linux?" Hell, I would LOVE to run ACID on my G3. But Sonic Foundry is 1000% behind Windows...not surprising considering the guy who founded SF wrote some of the multimedia code underpinning Windows95.
This is the reason why Sonic Foundry products run so well under that unseemly mess known as Win32...the Foundry probably knows all the hidden hooks in the Win32 API.
You have to give SF credit...they do make some of the best audio apps out there. Vegas is a ProTools killer. ACID doesn't have anything that compares to it on any other platform. Sound Forge is still the gold standard for stereo audio work. They have geniuses like Chris Moulios banging out awesome code.
And they, unlike others, usually come out with bargain-basement versions of all their technology. ACIDMusic is less than $100...more like $60 if you look in the right places. They just came out with a cut-down version of VegasVideo geared towards people editing their own home movies that probably would also be splendid for those doing garage-level filmmaking...also under $100. And Sound Forge XP is almost as capable as the full version of Sound Forge and costs less to buy than the low-end version of CoolEdit costs to register.
As much as I am rooting for Open Source and alternative OSes to kick Redmond's butt, I still have to give props to the Foundry.
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This is why I have been suspicious of Gore from day one. I remember the "Washington Wives" hearings. I remember all this crap.
Go to a Wal-Mart or a K-Mart or a Target. Try to find an album that has the "Parental Warning: Explicit Lyrics" sticker on it. C'mon, I dare ya.
Can't find one? Why? Because it's against company policy for Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Target to stock albums that have the sticker. Instant censorship, folks! You want that Eminem album? You'll probably find it at Sam Goody, but not at those stores.
Do you really want this to happen to the Internet? Then elect either Gush or Bore. Actually Nader is also for 'Net censorship so he's out too. And Buchanan? Fuhgettaboutit!
Your only alternative? Vote Libertarian.
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All kidding aside, you know that there are new Top Level Domains that can be use to isolate pr0n sites in their own "red light districts." Both .XXX and .SEX have been proposed to ICANN. Most pr0n site companies actually don't want to have minors enter their sites. I predict that when these TLDs come online there will be a stampede by pr0n sites to grab them. Currently the Adult Check system and other credit card age verification systems like them are being used by most sites.
Fearless prediction: when .XXX and .SEX become legit TLDs, much of this problem will be solved. And some wags who post here regularly will have goat.sex to play with. Won't that be fun? ;-)
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One more comment along these same lines: Nader wants censorship of the Internet too.
And all you need as evidence that Dubba is an idjit is to just listen to him talk.
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It's obvious. Neither of these guys are friends of a free and open Internet. Gore's idea of a "parental information page" generated on the ISP side popping up every time a web page pops up is incredibly silly and would require lots of human hours to create. How many pages are there on the World Wide Web? Billions? How many humans would it take to review these billions of pages and write up parental information on all of them? For shame, Gore, you know better.
This is why I'm voting Libertarian this time around. I cannot simply hold my nose and vote Gore because he'll probably choose less offensive Supreme Court nominees...the fscker's dangerous and I've known that since Tipper was holding court over the Parents Music Resource Center.
Bush is not only dangerous, but dumb as a stone boat too. I'm moving to Vancouver if he gets in.
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As a real, live female who has never hidden this fact from /. posters, I have to say amen to that. It is indeed bad that there isn't much gender balance here...I suspect it's because of the pissing contests and testosterone damaged trolling that goes on here.
If it wasn't for the fact that Slashcode is so fsckn opaque, I might have been able to suggest an alternative. If there are any grrl geeks within the sound of this post who want to volunteer to help me untangle my install of Slashcode 1.0.7 on Slashhosting.com, please get through my spamblock (it's easy, just change a couple of spelled-out punctuation marks) and email me right away. Because if I don't get the damn thing working soon, I'm going to cut my losses and cancel my account.
Until and unless I can get my slashsite for grrl geeks up and running, I suggest more, not less grrl geek participation in /. And even if and when the site gets running I suggest continuing to participate here.
And for Goddess' sake, don't fsckn hide your gender! Show it proudly. Yes, there are grrl geeks out there. We exist. We stand proudly and say "I am."
Yeah, if you read the ZDNet article you'll find that Red Hat is not the only Linux that is now being supported. Caldera and SUSE are also mentioned.
Its like the classic bumper sticker "keep working, millions on welfare depend on you".
Typical right-wing claptrap. Yeah, go on Welfare, but bear in mind that 5 years hence it will ALL BE GONE and you will either have to get a J-O-B or go on "workfare" and work menial jobs for your check. Actually in some states you have to work menial make-work jobs for your check regardless.
And the thing about the "NEW" welfare is that once your 5-year allotment is gone, it's gone. Forever. You can only take 5 years of welfare in your entire lifetime. After that, it's pretty much sink or swim.
TANSTAFFL, dude.
He looks like Kermit too.
OK, let me tell you about community on the Internet.
About five months ago, I got an email from one of the people who frequent the same IRC channel as I do. It was a suicide note. It was time-stamped about an hour before I received it.
I dropped everything and fired up my IRC client, and flooded the channel with her suicide note. We didn't know her exact address, but we knew roughly the town where she lived. I got on the horn to 911 in her community. It took some figuring but we were able to figure out which school the girl went to, and then the authorities were able to find out where she lived from her HS's records. The paramedics were able to find the girl in time and she is alive and well now.
The upshot is that now I and a couple of the other people who frequent this chat are now friends in meatspace with the girl...I'm sort of like her adopted aunt. If it wasn't for email and IRC this girl would probably be dead by now.
So don't fsckn tell me there is no such thing as real community in Cyberspace. Don't fsckn tell me that people in Cyberspace don't take responsibility for each other. This is not a fsckn country club or...what was your turn of phrase...chowder society. This is real.