The point is that if you don't control the supercomputer, then you have no control over what you see if someone else wants to make you see something you don't want to see.
And his point is that there's no reason why you cannot also control the supercomputer. It is, after all, SITTING ON YOUR DESK. ORWELL DOES NOT APPLY HERE.
It's mild, I realize, but the cover picture bugs the shit out of me. Combining the (mildly concerning) sexualization, (mildly concerning) appropriation of cultural symbols, and (mildly concerning) sensationalism of "kiss your cubicle goodbye", this cover seems inappropriate to me.
I realize I may be more sensitive to these things than y'all who aren't candy-assed liberals, but... it bugs me. If this sort of sexualized picture was used for some non-sensationalistic purpose, like selling cars, I might not mind. If this sort of sensationalistic copy were on some photograph that were not sexual or did not appropriate "exotic" cultural symbols it might not bother me either.
The way it stands, I tore the cover off of my magazine when it was delivered and briefly considered cancelling my (charter) subscription. (All the while thinking "After all those years of mediocrity from Wired, this is what is going to make me cancel?")
My understanding from other posts is that in order to get the special no-windows-necessary modem, you need to spend $600 + ~$90/mo. If that's the case, then he could easily, easily do quad multilink for the same price.
With the price of the DirecWay service he's talking about, I think quad modems could be economical. I just can't figure out how to find ISPs that support it. (No big deal for me. I'm just looking so I can find a relevant link and impress Taco.)
Ah, yes, the engineers may have thought about it, decided that it would be too expensive to implement, and then done something that doesn't work well but only costs $40 rather than $600 for the competing Sony product.
So, marketting or otherwise, his question is worthwhile. His question can be answered by a myriad of reviews available on the subject, but that's not what you seem to be talking about.
Multilink PPP. If you're going to be paying $120/mo plus $600 hardware startup, why not go with a few extra dumb phone lines and a few extra 56k modems?
You'll probably get the same speed as you would from the satelite, but no latency at all. I'm sure *someone* at OSDN can help you rope the modems together and get a cohesive connection out of it. You might need to use some peicemeal HTTP downloader app to get the full benefit for large downloads, but I don't know how multilink PPP works.
They're both inbred and they're both invitation-only. At least, check out "high society" Philadelphia. Everyone is cousins.
And you're not allowed in either one if you're a woman that refuses to be treated like an object.
Deliverance was fiction. I don't know what the hell your problem is with his original comment. His followup is braindead, but...
Pantywaist city folks when they meet rurual folks tend to question their own masculinity and usually get teased about being fags -- and they feel like fags next to "real people."
Where the fuck is that coming from? In my city, the 240 lbs musclebound queer will win every contest of masculinity. I don't need to hang out with rednecks to question that. And if you pay a visit to my neighborhood, we'll see who's "real people."
A friend of mine used to go jogging every day. He eventually screwed up his knee (shocker). He might be able to get his knee fixed, but he can't afford proper medical care. In the mean time, his knee isn't effected by DDR playing.
He goes crazy without excercise, and now he gets his sanity from DDR. Every day. For a few hours. He loves that shit. It's particularly funny to me 'n' the rest of his friends just because he's the opposite of a video game type person, and he used to continually mock the asia-phile mallrats that typically play the game.
And to paint a pretty picture of what you're saying, an href equals SCO's 1 year data. No one gives a flying care whether SCO's stock flutters around at $15. It was in danger of getting delisted a year ago. Darl has delivered quite handily what he promised to the board when he signed on.
That figure means nothing to me. If the baseline cancer-rate was 0.002% and it went to 0.202%, I'd say that was a big deal. If it went from 0.002% to 0.00204%, then I might agree with you.
And do you think that the Finnish government is backing up the insurance company that's going to insure these new nukes?
If not, then I agree. I highly suspect that they are, though. I don't see any reason why our government should do that. If it is too risky to insure, then it is too risky to build.
Hey, *I* don't have a problem with nuclear reactors. I have a problem with the government indemnifying their operators. If they can find a private corporation to carry their insurance, then let them build nukes.
But they can't, which is the only reason we don't have any new nukes.
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The people you kill aren't the ones suing you. The people who sue you are the ones who's children have birth defects. The people who sue you are the ones that own radioactive land.
Chernobyl was extremely expensive. Pointing out that it was only 44 people is kindof silly. So what.
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Ah, that's right. That's why insurance companies won't insure new nuclear reactors. That's because it's politically and socially unacceptable.
The "political" reason that they aren't getting built is because the government won't indemnify or guarantee the insurance companies that insure nuclear reactors.
And why should they, really? Apparently no one knows how to build a nuke reactor safely enough for the insurance companies. That's a fiscal decision, not a political or a social one.
In the preferences, you can set it so that you do not need to click the "import" button. I think (not sitting at my mac right now) that it reads "On CD Insert: Import and eject".
It makes it so that all you need to do is insert a CD. When it is complete, the CD will be ejected. Insert the next CD. If someone's doing mass CD ripping, it's the only way to fly.
If that particular feature worked nicely with multiple drives, you could do a lot of damage with three CD ROM drives and a fast mac, and it wouldn't take much attention on the part of the user. You could train your kid brother to do it.
About a year ago, I was chatting with a friend from college that got a job with Forbes. She said that everyone at Forbes had been told that if they could figure out any way to mention "Linux" in their story, they should.
I try to mention this every time that Forbes trolls us, but it'd died down a bit.
I realize that this might be kindof hard to believe, but... I'm not lying. Forbes is the NY Post of business journalism.
Boo hoo, they take me down with one shot. Well, duh, that's the whole purpose of a sniper rifle.
That's the whole point of an AK47 too. The AK47 fires its rounds plenty fast enough to tear someone completely apart with one bullet. All of these games have made assault rifles less powerful due to gameplay considerations. They don't want to do the same thing with the elephant gun because people like it. But it does fuck with gameplay.
The elephant gun isn't fair in CS, but that's because they decided to make it more quake-like after beta.
A plain assault rifle, at the ranges involved in a CS game, is as good as a "sniper" rifle. When the M4-A1 was super accurate, in the early betas, there was much less reason to use a sniper rifle.
In real life, with practice, you can shoot someone very accurately from very far away with an M16 or AK47 type assault rifle. One or two shots will take them out of the "game". But Valve decided that games were too hard for beginners when everyone was that accurate, so they drastically increased the recoil effect and made it very difficult to fire accurately while not crouched. And they decreased the damage dealt by assault rifles and sub machine guns.
They decreased the damage done by everything except the BFG. No wonder people complain about it. You get no props from me by sniping in CS unless it's with the scout. (And I loved sniping with the scout on public servers. That 1 kill per round is fine with me, 'cause it feels so so good:)
First: Whoop-ti-doo -- I haven't had an external power supply on my computer since I threw away my C-64. I'm sorry, but this hardly qualifies as innovation...
Then: I'm perfectly happy with my Creative SLiX as is. (The thing could be a little quieter though.)
Consider reconciling those two statements. This new product will be quieter because they won't need to cool the power supply or the graphics card. The tradeoff is graphics performance.
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Is how they insist that a community can or should behave as a monolith.
Linus, Gates, and Theo have no control over how their software communities behave. Their respective software communities have no control over how they themselves behave.
Yes, I realize my complaint has been voiced before. But all y'all jackasses are hard to drown out. Well. IHBT. IHL. HAND.
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The point is that if you don't control the supercomputer, then you have no control over what you see if someone else wants to make you see something you don't want to see.
And his point is that there's no reason why you cannot also control the supercomputer. It is, after all, SITTING ON YOUR DESK. ORWELL DOES NOT APPLY HERE.
The sexuality is not gratuitous. The combination of xenophobia and sexualization of ethnicity is what bugs me, I guess.
It's mild, I realize, but the cover picture bugs the shit out of me. Combining the (mildly concerning) sexualization, (mildly concerning) appropriation of cultural symbols, and (mildly concerning) sensationalism of "kiss your cubicle goodbye", this cover seems inappropriate to me.
I realize I may be more sensitive to these things than y'all who aren't candy-assed liberals, but... it bugs me. If this sort of sexualized picture was used for some non-sensationalistic purpose, like selling cars, I might not mind. If this sort of sensationalistic copy were on some photograph that were not sexual or did not appropriate "exotic" cultural symbols it might not bother me either.
The way it stands, I tore the cover off of my magazine when it was delivered and briefly considered cancelling my (charter) subscription. (All the while thinking "After all those years of mediocrity from Wired, this is what is going to make me cancel?")
Fair enough :)
My understanding from other posts is that in order to get the special no-windows-necessary modem, you need to spend $600 + ~$90/mo. If that's the case, then he could easily, easily do quad multilink for the same price.
With the price of the DirecWay service he's talking about, I think quad modems could be economical. I just can't figure out how to find ISPs that support it. (No big deal for me. I'm just looking so I can find a relevant link and impress Taco.)
Ah, yes, the engineers may have thought about it, decided that it would be too expensive to implement, and then done something that doesn't work well but only costs $40 rather than $600 for the competing Sony product.
So, marketting or otherwise, his question is worthwhile. His question can be answered by a myriad of reviews available on the subject, but that's not what you seem to be talking about.
Multilink PPP. If you're going to be paying $120/mo plus $600 hardware startup, why not go with a few extra dumb phone lines and a few extra 56k modems?
You'll probably get the same speed as you would from the satelite, but no latency at all. I'm sure *someone* at OSDN can help you rope the modems together and get a cohesive connection out of it. You might need to use some peicemeal HTTP downloader app to get the full benefit for large downloads, but I don't know how multilink PPP works.
Why? I can have my masculinity challenged right here in San Francisco.
Ooooh! You proved that Micromoog called himself a fag ! Damn! That's cold!
What if he is queer, jackass?
They're both inbred and they're both invitation-only. At least, check out "high society" Philadelphia. Everyone is cousins.
And you're not allowed in either one if you're a woman that refuses to be treated like an object.
Deliverance was fiction. I don't know what the hell your problem is with his original comment. His followup is braindead, but...
Pantywaist city folks when they meet rurual folks tend to question their own masculinity and usually get teased about being fags -- and they feel like fags next to "real people."
Where the fuck is that coming from? In my city, the 240 lbs musclebound queer will win every contest of masculinity. I don't need to hang out with rednecks to question that. And if you pay a visit to my neighborhood, we'll see who's "real people."
A friend of mine used to go jogging every day. He eventually screwed up his knee (shocker). He might be able to get his knee fixed, but he can't afford proper medical care. In the mean time, his knee isn't effected by DDR playing.
He goes crazy without excercise, and now he gets his sanity from DDR. Every day. For a few hours. He loves that shit. It's particularly funny to me 'n' the rest of his friends just because he's the opposite of a video game type person, and he used to continually mock the asia-phile mallrats that typically play the game.
Amen, brother.
And to paint a pretty picture of what you're saying, an href equals SCO's 1 year data. No one gives a flying care whether SCO's stock flutters around at $15. It was in danger of getting delisted a year ago. Darl has delivered quite handily what he promised to the board when he signed on.
That figure means nothing to me. If the baseline cancer-rate was 0.002% and it went to 0.202%, I'd say that was a big deal. If it went from 0.002% to 0.00204%, then I might agree with you.
And do you think that the Finnish government is backing up the insurance company that's going to insure these new nukes?
If not, then I agree. I highly suspect that they are, though. I don't see any reason why our government should do that. If it is too risky to insure, then it is too risky to build.
Hey, *I* don't have a problem with nuclear reactors. I have a problem with the government indemnifying their operators. If they can find a private corporation to carry their insurance, then let them build nukes.
But they can't, which is the only reason we don't have any new nukes.
The people you kill aren't the ones suing you. The people who sue you are the ones who's children have birth defects. The people who sue you are the ones that own radioactive land.
Chernobyl was extremely expensive. Pointing out that it was only 44 people is kindof silly. So what.
Ah, that's right. That's why insurance companies won't insure new nuclear reactors. That's because it's politically and socially unacceptable.
The "political" reason that they aren't getting built is because the government won't indemnify or guarantee the insurance companies that insure nuclear reactors.
And why should they, really? Apparently no one knows how to build a nuke reactor safely enough for the insurance companies. That's a fiscal decision, not a political or a social one.
Yeah, I got that the first time.
In the preferences, you can set it so that you do not need to click the "import" button. I think (not sitting at my mac right now) that it reads "On CD Insert: Import and eject".
It makes it so that all you need to do is insert a CD. When it is complete, the CD will be ejected. Insert the next CD. If someone's doing mass CD ripping, it's the only way to fly.
If that particular feature worked nicely with multiple drives, you could do a lot of damage with three CD ROM drives and a fast mac, and it wouldn't take much attention on the part of the user. You could train your kid brother to do it.
How about the import & eject feature?
Can you import and eject from multiple drives simultaneously?
Does anybody know?
About a year ago, I was chatting with a friend from college that got a job with Forbes. She said that everyone at Forbes had been told that if they could figure out any way to mention "Linux" in their story, they should.
I try to mention this every time that Forbes trolls us, but it'd died down a bit.
I realize that this might be kindof hard to believe, but... I'm not lying. Forbes is the NY Post of business journalism.
Boo hoo, they take me down with one shot. Well, duh, that's the whole purpose of a sniper rifle.
That's the whole point of an AK47 too. The AK47 fires its rounds plenty fast enough to tear someone completely apart with one bullet. All of these games have made assault rifles less powerful due to gameplay considerations. They don't want to do the same thing with the elephant gun because people like it. But it does fuck with gameplay.
The elephant gun isn't fair in CS, but that's because they decided to make it more quake-like after beta.
:)
A plain assault rifle, at the ranges involved in a CS game, is as good as a "sniper" rifle. When the M4-A1 was super accurate, in the early betas, there was much less reason to use a sniper rifle.
In real life, with practice, you can shoot someone very accurately from very far away with an M16 or AK47 type assault rifle. One or two shots will take them out of the "game". But Valve decided that games were too hard for beginners when everyone was that accurate, so they drastically increased the recoil effect and made it very difficult to fire accurately while not crouched. And they decreased the damage dealt by assault rifles and sub machine guns.
They decreased the damage done by everything except the BFG. No wonder people complain about it. You get no props from me by sniping in CS unless it's with the scout. (And I loved sniping with the scout on public servers. That 1 kill per round is fine with me, 'cause it feels so so good
First:
Whoop-ti-doo -- I haven't had an external power supply on my computer since I threw away my C-64. I'm sorry, but this hardly qualifies as innovation...
Then:
I'm perfectly happy with my Creative SLiX as is. (The thing could be a little quieter though.)
Consider reconciling those two statements. This new product will be quieter because they won't need to cool the power supply or the graphics card. The tradeoff is graphics performance.
Is how they insist that a community can or should behave as a monolith.
Linus, Gates, and Theo have no control over how their software communities behave. Their respective software communities have no control over how they themselves behave.
Yes, I realize my complaint has been voiced before. But all y'all jackasses are hard to drown out. Well. IHBT. IHL. HAND.