So I built my own PC in August of 2001 (http://www.theblight.net/nightshade/photos/linuxb ox). I originally had a watercooling system built, and a brand-spankin' new Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 in there. The copper water block I installed was a little bit off-center, so it snapped the top motherboard heatsink tab and fell six inches, right onto my GF3. The thing weighed 1-2 pounds with all the pipe fittings and such. Ohhh, the horror. But the graphics card works great today, no damage whatsoever...
lucky me. That thing cost me four weeks pay at the time : D (yay minimum wage)
This is truly a wonderful example of what a dedicated group of fans can pull off (in addition to Linux, of course ; ) I've been fairly unenthused with just about every game I've ever played, with the exception of the Myth series. The balance of skill, unit selection, terrain, and a little bit of luck makes it the most playable game I've found yet.
Just this christmas vacation we all got together for our annual LAN game -- did we play the latest and greatest Quake or Unreal version? Course not! Myth II for nine hours straight. Fear my 'lock, bitch!::KABOOM::
Let's hope that the Hollings bill doesn't also pass, because then you might as well slap the same generic label on every single digital device out there, just like danger tags on everything -- "Misuse of this kleenex could cause personal injury." You know what I mean.
But, simply by putting a label on the product that says "Restricts blah blah" people who wouldn't have had a clue will now at least have heard of copyright protection and digital restrictions. The more it's talked about, the more people will be judicious with their purchases, and hopefully we can see a happy medium balance itself out.
Sure, Mom and Pop won't know what the hell that tag means, but when us college students figure realize "hey, I can't download my music anymore?! WTF!!" sales of young-person-targeted devices (PDAs, MP3 players, sleek laptops, etc.) will drop if the restrictions are too high.
Now, if only we can get this through, fix the DMCA, and repeal the PATRIOT act...
I'm a computer engineer student at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. There are a number of computer science students here who honestly have no clue whatsoever how to use a computer. Just the other day a CS student asked me to help him with his computer -- the screen was shaking back and forth. Well, he had an AC cord wrapped around his VGA cord. He had no clue what AC was, nor what frequency the US was on when I asked.
I think the computer engineers know a little more (in my biased opinion) because most people don't think of it as a major when they think of computers. Computer science is the first thing that comes to mind. Many guys say "Well, I like playing video games, and making them sounds like fun, so I'll major in that" even though they themselves have no programming experience whatsoever. It pains me when I have to fix their computers.
Don't get me wrong. There are a great many students here who know an extensive amount, whether it be software or hardware, and have done some very interesting things with it. But you can always tell those people who simply think that learning about computers will make them rich.
Yes, it does matter. Some of us do indeed collect data for the sake of collecting. I have around 24,000 songs or 105GB worth of music at the moment. I collect digital media like anyone else would collect stamps or baseball cards. I have a text library with 27,000 files (saved a good number of bucks not having to buy novels I've found in there) and something on the order of 8,000 works of art -- Monet, Manet, Dali, Renoit, Bosch, Van Goh -- you name it.
Unlike that stamp collection, though, these can actually be useful.
that as may be, but I've never seen someone raped in the ass as hard and with as painful lubricant (think "mace" as lube) as Microsoft will.
More people at University have lost all their data and had to reinstall windows repeatedly on brand-spankin' new machines with XP while I chug away on a five year old mac.
But honestly now, how many times has the death bell "tolled' for apple? Every other year, it seems. I remember a quote right after Jobs released the iMac, something to this effect: "The iMac may be doing well, but it's just a momentary rise in the otherwise downward trend of apple. They're doomed."
I wonder when people will realize that Apple is the only tech company in this time actually doing well and not drowning in red ink. Apple will never die as long as it it has its hardcore section of fans.
Hell, they control more market share than Subaru, and they've been around since at least the seventies. No one's saying they're going bankrupt.
So like, I had this Mac. But I started hanging with this "other" crowd, and they were all PC users, so like, I am too now. It's been good. But now I have leprosy. Is that supposed to come with WinXP?
Is it a feature or something?
My name's night, and I'm a bell-jingling diseased rodent.
: D/my Karma has just committed suicide.
Yes, it is in fact a big deal. Not every community has multiple options for high speed internet access -- if you're unlucky enough to be stuck in an area with only one ISP that offers cable/DSL and they have the draconian requirement that you have only one machine on the network, you have a problem.
The telephone companies did this a while ago about the number of phones you could have connected to your phone line. They monitored the voltage drop on the line when your phone rang. They eventually gave up trying to enforce it.
What better way to preserve priceless recordings than by making them available to the public? If they allow private citizens to download copies for their own use, should anything happen to the originals there would still be countless digital copies available.
I've always enjoyed collecting and listening to historical speeches and old radio broadcasts (HG Wells' _War of the Worlds_, for instance). This would be excellent.
Gaming addiction is not a behavior of gamers... it's a behavior of addicts.
I have to disagree. I'm a engineer at Cal Poly, and I've seen many of my otherwise perfectly healthy and competent fellow classmates spend hours and hours gunning each other down in Counterstrike, and putting off important essays until 5am, when they're due in a few hours. I've even created a rivalry between two of my friends who didn't even know each other, competing for the highest score in Crack Attack. One's girlfriend threatened me with death because all he did anymore was try to beat the other friend's score.
What I'm trying to say is that there aren't predefined sets of personality, where you can say "This person will become and addict, and oh, this guy over here, he won't be." Anyone can find themselves taking any activity too seriously, -especially- when there is competition involved. (and especially males, for we can focus single-mindedly on one thing and have the competitive streak to boot ; )
Anyway, I quit games. I was sick of playing for hours and hours to get nowhere and have done nothing; all my peers lament their lack of lives and wasted hours, but every night they're back at it again. ------
A judge who gives out a warrant under such conditions as this should be taken to court. Sure, you can get a warrant for anything. But for something as lame as this, he should get sued.
I'm sorry, but the confiscation of private property due to a fear of shadows without a warrant is a violation of the fourth amendment, and busting these kids due to some junk they posted online is a violation of the first amendment. I think we have a reason to be up in arms because this seems to be all too common in this bloody world today.
Though the search engines refusal to give out how they rank a site may disagree with the whole "open source" movement, it does serve a purpose. We can guarentee that every person out there would do their best to exploit the system, and we'd all end up getting porn sites pop up when we searched for "vacuum tubes" (that's actually happened to me)
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So I built my own PC in August of 2001 (http://www.theblight.net/nightshade/photos/linuxb ox). I originally had a watercooling system built, and a brand-spankin' new Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 in there. The copper water block I installed was a little bit off-center, so it snapped the top motherboard heatsink tab and fell six inches, right onto my GF3. The thing weighed 1-2 pounds with all the pipe fittings and such. Ohhh, the horror. But the graphics card works great today, no damage whatsoever...
lucky me. That thing cost me four weeks pay at the time : D (yay minimum wage)
That can't possibly cause as much pain as the tried and true solutions to spam:
- Castration
- Firebombings
- Slow torture
- an intercontinental ballistic missle strike
This is truly a wonderful example of what a dedicated group of fans can pull off (in addition to Linux, of course ; )
::KABOOM::
I've been fairly unenthused with just about every game I've ever played, with the exception of the Myth series. The balance of skill, unit selection, terrain, and a little bit of luck makes it the most playable game I've found yet.
Just this christmas vacation we all got together for our annual LAN game -- did we play the latest and greatest Quake or Unreal version? Course not! Myth II for nine hours straight. Fear my 'lock, bitch!
Let's hope that the Hollings bill doesn't also pass, because then you might as well slap the same generic label on every single digital device out there, just like danger tags on everything -- "Misuse of this kleenex could cause personal injury." You know what I mean.
But, simply by putting a label on the product that says "Restricts blah blah" people who wouldn't have had a clue will now at least have heard of copyright protection and digital restrictions. The more it's talked about, the more people will be judicious with their purchases, and hopefully we can see a happy medium balance itself out.
Sure, Mom and Pop won't know what the hell that tag means, but when us college students figure realize "hey, I can't download my music anymore?! WTF!!" sales of young-person-targeted devices (PDAs, MP3 players, sleek laptops, etc.) will drop if the restrictions are too high.
Now, if only we can get this through, fix the DMCA, and repeal the PATRIOT act...
I'm a computer engineer student at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. There are a number of computer science students here who honestly have no clue whatsoever how to use a computer. Just the other day a CS student asked me to help him with his computer -- the screen was shaking back and forth. Well, he had an AC cord wrapped around his VGA cord. He had no clue what AC was, nor what frequency the US was on when I asked.
I think the computer engineers know a little more (in my biased opinion) because most people don't think of it as a major when they think of computers. Computer science is the first thing that comes to mind. Many guys say "Well, I like playing video games, and making them sounds like fun, so I'll major in that" even though they themselves have no programming experience whatsoever. It pains me when I have to fix their computers.
Don't get me wrong. There are a great many students here who know an extensive amount, whether it be software or hardware, and have done some very interesting things with it. But you can always tell those people who simply think that learning about computers will make them rich.
Yes, it does matter. Some of us do indeed collect data for the sake of collecting. I have around 24,000 songs or 105GB worth of music at the moment. I collect digital media like anyone else would collect stamps or baseball cards. I have a text library with 27,000 files (saved a good number of bucks not having to buy novels I've found in there) and something on the order of 8,000 works of art -- Monet, Manet, Dali, Renoit, Bosch, Van Goh -- you name it.
Unlike that stamp collection, though, these can actually be useful.
that as may be, but I've never seen someone raped in the ass as hard and with as painful lubricant (think "mace" as lube) as Microsoft will.
More people at University have lost all their data and had to reinstall windows repeatedly on brand-spankin' new machines with XP while I chug away on a five year old mac.
But honestly now, how many times has the death bell "tolled' for apple? Every other year, it seems. I remember a quote right after Jobs released the iMac, something to this effect: "The iMac may be doing well, but it's just a momentary rise in the otherwise downward trend of apple. They're doomed."
I wonder when people will realize that Apple is the only tech company in this time actually doing well and not drowning in red ink. Apple will never die as long as it it has its hardcore section of fans.
Hell, they control more market share than Subaru, and they've been around since at least the seventies. No one's saying they're going bankrupt.
So like, I had this Mac. But I started hanging with this "other" crowd, and they were all PC users, so like, I am too now. It's been good. But now I have leprosy. Is that supposed to come with WinXP? Is it a feature or something? My name's night, and I'm a bell-jingling diseased rodent. : D /my Karma has just committed suicide.
Yes, it is in fact a big deal. Not every community has multiple options for high speed internet access -- if you're unlucky enough to be stuck in an area with only one ISP that offers cable/DSL and they have the draconian requirement that you have only one machine on the network, you have a problem.
The telephone companies did this a while ago about the number of phones you could have connected to your phone line. They monitored the voltage drop on the line when your phone rang. They eventually gave up trying to enforce it.
What better way to preserve priceless recordings than by making them available to the public? If they allow private citizens to download copies for their own use, should anything happen to the originals there would still be countless digital copies available.
I've always enjoyed collecting and listening to historical speeches and old radio broadcasts (HG Wells' _War of the Worlds_, for instance). This would be excellent.
And since you, little AC with poor grammar, didn't get MY joke, that makes you even stupider.
...and you question the Japanese use of inch?
Gaming addiction is not a behavior of gamers... it's a behavior of addicts.
I have to disagree. I'm a engineer at Cal Poly, and I've seen many of my otherwise perfectly healthy and competent fellow classmates spend hours and hours gunning each other down in Counterstrike, and putting off important essays until 5am, when they're due in a few hours. I've even created a rivalry between two of my friends who didn't even know each other, competing for the highest score in Crack Attack. One's girlfriend threatened me with death because all he did anymore was try to beat the other friend's score.
What I'm trying to say is that there aren't predefined sets of personality, where you can say "This person will become and addict, and oh, this guy over here, he won't be." Anyone can find themselves taking any activity too seriously, -especially- when there is competition involved. (and especially males, for we can focus single-mindedly on one thing and have the competitive streak to boot ; )
Anyway, I quit games. I was sick of playing for hours and hours to get nowhere and have done nothing; all my peers lament their lack of lives and wasted hours, but every night they're back at it again.
------
I dunno. John Romero looks like he should be posing for Playboy. ; )
a common code that can run on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems
Last time they did this we got Java. And look what it has done for our web browsing experience! Oh wait, you don't like lag?
ultimate case mod
A judge who gives out a warrant under such conditions as this should be taken to court. Sure, you can get a warrant for anything. But for something as lame as this, he should get sued.
hey, free speech is guaranteed in our first amendment. Since when is speaking anything close to dealing drugs?
I'm sorry, but the confiscation of private property due to a fear of shadows without a warrant is a violation of the fourth amendment, and busting these kids due to some junk they posted online is a violation of the first amendment. I think we have a reason to be up in arms because this seems to be all too common in this bloody world today.
Though the search engines refusal to give out how they rank a site may disagree with the whole "open source" movement, it does serve a purpose. We can guarentee that every person out there would do their best to exploit the system, and we'd all end up getting porn sites pop up when we searched for "vacuum tubes" (that's actually happened to me) _ The world can't end today because it's tomorrow in Australia