You're either ignorant or one of those fucking scientologist morons. So Pavlov's dogs has not been scientifically proven? stfu. You have no fucking idea what you're talking about (nothing new for/.). There are certainly things about psycology that are not proven but there are many things that are. Does this remind anyone of something like...uh...physics perhaps??
Perhaps you haven't been tuning into the news lately but the middle class has no power. Also, there's a HUGE difference between what a middle class person and a rich person can get away with.
In spite of its sales, it was pretty much DOA. Most of the people who bought it did so because of id's reputation. In the end, they were mostly disappointed. The game is terribly derivative of its own history. The scares are cheap with the flashlight swap crap and end up just being very annoying and not scary at all. All the areas are these narrow corridors and small rooms because the performance would be ass otherwise. This left me bored pretty damn fast.
Other than new graphics, this game had nothing going for it. A total dud and that's that. Only a total fanboy could like it.
Lets face it, Unreal and Half Life kick Doom's ass all over the place at this point. Although I admit that HL2 was disappointing because of Steam (I love waiting 5 minutes to play my game because of that fucking piece of shit). I will never by another half life that has Steam in it. The only online FPS I really like Is UT2k4. Everything else is pretty much ass these days.
Finally, are there still people playing Counterstrike? rofl
Very well said. I'm glad there's at least a few who actually get it. This country is filled with ignorant blowhards who know absolutely nothing about the people we are fighting. Unfortunately our leaders are no better so this will go on.
You took it out of context by not using it correctly. Reagan wasn't so stupid such that he would use that quote in this instance. The reason we have the fucking problem is BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT. They created the SSN system. This means they have to fix it. This can come in many forms but they will have to be involved.
Lemme make it more obvious for you...
If the government were taxing you for 90% of your paycheck, would Reagan have said that quote? No because only the government could change it.
To say that it's better than fingerprint readers because pineapple farmers dont' have fingerprints is quite a stretch. I'm not a pneapple farmer, I don't know any pineapple farmers, nor have I ever met a pineapple farmer. Most people in the continental US (and the non-tropical world) haven't either.
As for the false reject rates, what I'm curious about is the false acceptance rates. My guess is that they have no good statistics on it though.
"Maybe JIT moved Java from being fully interpreted, but it's still interpreted and "compiled" at runtime making it theoretically (a.k.a Javaly) and realistically on average always slower and more of a memory hog than unnamed alternatives, that's all."
Always slower? no. Always a memory hog? yes.
I could whip out performance reports where Java will beat C++ in various measurements. It's pointless though because most of the morons who post to this site don't understand the technology at all anyway.
"Java version incompatibilities, buggy VMs, oh my."
Oh this is my favorite. Of course no other languages ever have any of these problems, right? Even compiled languages never have problems where the compiler is bugged, right? Please. Evidently you've never coded with a compiled language, or if you did it was trivial in complexity.
I've dropped my Karma many times. It's got scratches amd scuffs all over it and it still works as well as it did the day I bought it. You had bad luck. If you'd like I can dredge up some iPod customers who had some bad luck and bad support too but is that really necessary?
If you can't understand the difference in sophistication between the karma interface and the iPod there's simply no hope for you. The Karma is FAR more efficient. Load a huge library of songs and I can get to any album or any song MUCH faster on a karma. Either you never had a karma or you sure as hell didn't know how to use it.
They are easy to use and look pretty. That's why they are popular. I have used the iPod, the Rio Karma, and various Creative Labs players. The Rio Karma is the best of the bunch by far. The iPod is pretty but nowhere near as efficient to use as the Karma, nor does it have the feature set of the karma. The Creative players have decent feature sets but are very much lacking in the UI department (with their software being absolutely abysmal).
In short, Karma > iPod > Creative (any player)
Of course, I'm tempted to downgrade the iPod to the bottom because the only format they support that's not proprietary is MP3 (which kinda is). The Karma supports ogg and flac which sound better as well and are public.
Opera defaults itself as IE because some websites won't load unless you tell them you are IE. Opera, just like Firefox, is a victim of all the IE specific sites out there that continue to flourish.
I don't think so since your ISP would have all that data anyway. But who knows? I figure at some point they will realise that you can get bomb making information (aka chemistry books) from a library and decide all libraries will have to have cameras that record every book everyone picks up.
All this 1984 shit pisses me off. I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists than give up all privacy and freedom. The administration can go fuck itself.
lol...please don't tell me you think this would be in the form of a license agreement. I can see some surreptitious ways for Apple spreading OSX around but there's no way in hell they would be that transparent about it. You can call it speculation because it hasn't been defined but when something is 90% likely it's what I call damn good speculation.
Anytime you feel like getting your ass handed to you by someone with a cordless mouse, feel free to look me up in UT2k4. The name is Frack. I use an MX700 and it's better than every corded mouse I have used except for Logitech's MX 510.
If you know anything about the underlying technology, you would know that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about (not that that's new on/.)
You can bet on them using this chip. Jobs has already said they have no intention of allowing OSX to run on anything but Apple hardware and the only way to insure that is via the microprocessor.
Granted, this will be hacked withing a month but...
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You're either ignorant or one of those fucking scientologist morons. So Pavlov's dogs has not been scientifically proven? stfu. You have no fucking idea what you're talking about (nothing new for /.). There are certainly things about psycology that are not proven but there are many things that are. Does this remind anyone of something like...uh...physics perhaps??
Perhaps you haven't been tuning into the news lately but the middle class has no power. Also, there's a HUGE difference between what a middle class person and a rich person can get away with.
God, not wheezer too...
In spite of its sales, it was pretty much DOA. Most of the people who bought it did so because of id's reputation. In the end, they were mostly disappointed. The game is terribly derivative of its own history. The scares are cheap with the flashlight swap crap and end up just being very annoying and not scary at all. All the areas are these narrow corridors and small rooms because the performance would be ass otherwise. This left me bored pretty damn fast.
Other than new graphics, this game had nothing going for it. A total dud and that's that. Only a total fanboy could like it.
Lets face it, Unreal and Half Life kick Doom's ass all over the place at this point. Although I admit that HL2 was disappointing because of Steam (I love waiting 5 minutes to play my game because of that fucking piece of shit). I will never by another half life that has Steam in it. The only online FPS I really like Is UT2k4. Everything else is pretty much ass these days.
Finally, are there still people playing Counterstrike? rofl
Possibly, but then it's not a cure -- it's a treatment.
Very well said. I'm glad there's at least a few who actually get it. This country is filled with ignorant blowhards who know absolutely nothing about the people we are fighting. Unfortunately our leaders are no better so this will go on.
cheap fuck
You took it out of context by not using it correctly. Reagan wasn't so stupid such that he would use that quote in this instance. The reason we have the fucking problem is BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT. They created the SSN system. This means they have to fix it. This can come in many forms but they will have to be involved.
Lemme make it more obvious for you...
If the government were taxing you for 90% of your paycheck, would Reagan have said that quote? No because only the government could change it.
You are either lazy or stupid. Go figure it out. The internet is your friend.
Way to take what he said completely out of context!
To say that it's better than fingerprint readers because pineapple farmers dont' have fingerprints is quite a stretch. I'm not a pneapple farmer, I don't know any pineapple farmers, nor have I ever met a pineapple farmer. Most people in the continental US (and the non-tropical world) haven't either.
As for the false reject rates, what I'm curious about is the false acceptance rates. My guess is that they have no good statistics on it though.
ROFLMAO
Damn that's good comedy. It's like a Ford Taurus saying it's gonna catch a Ferrari.
"Maybe JIT moved Java from being fully interpreted, but it's still interpreted and "compiled" at runtime making it theoretically (a.k.a Javaly) and realistically on average always slower and more of a memory hog than unnamed alternatives, that's all."
Always slower? no. Always a memory hog? yes.
I could whip out performance reports where Java will beat C++ in various measurements. It's pointless though because most of the morons who post to this site don't understand the technology at all anyway.
"Java version incompatibilities, buggy VMs, oh my."
Oh this is my favorite. Of course no other languages ever have any of these problems, right? Even compiled languages never have problems where the compiler is bugged, right? Please. Evidently you've never coded with a compiled language, or if you did it was trivial in complexity.
I've dropped my Karma many times. It's got scratches amd scuffs all over it and it still works as well as it did the day I bought it. You had bad luck. If you'd like I can dredge up some iPod customers who had some bad luck and bad support too but is that really necessary?
If you can't understand the difference in sophistication between the karma interface and the iPod there's simply no hope for you. The Karma is FAR more efficient. Load a huge library of songs and I can get to any album or any song MUCH faster on a karma. Either you never had a karma or you sure as hell didn't know how to use it.
They are easy to use and look pretty. That's why they are popular. I have used the iPod, the Rio Karma, and various Creative Labs players. The Rio Karma is the best of the bunch by far. The iPod is pretty but nowhere near as efficient to use as the Karma, nor does it have the feature set of the karma. The Creative players have decent feature sets but are very much lacking in the UI department (with their software being absolutely abysmal).
In short, Karma > iPod > Creative (any player)
Of course, I'm tempted to downgrade the iPod to the bottom because the only format they support that's not proprietary is MP3 (which kinda is). The Karma supports ogg and flac which sound better as well and are public.
Opera defaults itself as IE because some websites won't load unless you tell them you are IE. Opera, just like Firefox, is a victim of all the IE specific sites out there that continue to flourish.
Wow...did you come up with that all by yourself??
Actually the L.A. Times has a MUCH larger viewing audience than /.
I hate to break it to you but there are more "normal" people than nerds. Return back to your cave now.
I don't think so since your ISP would have all that data anyway. But who knows? I figure at some point they will realise that you can get bomb making information (aka chemistry books) from a library and decide all libraries will have to have cameras that record every book everyone picks up.
All this 1984 shit pisses me off. I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists than give up all privacy and freedom. The administration can go fuck itself.
lol...please don't tell me you think this would be in the form of a license agreement. I can see some surreptitious ways for Apple spreading OSX around but there's no way in hell they would be that transparent about it. You can call it speculation because it hasn't been defined but when something is 90% likely it's what I call damn good speculation.
Anytime you feel like getting your ass handed to you by someone with a cordless mouse, feel free to look me up in UT2k4. The name is Frack. I use an MX700 and it's better than every corded mouse I have used except for Logitech's MX 510.
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If you know anything about the underlying technology, you would know that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about (not that that's new on
You can bet on them using this chip. Jobs has already said they have no intention of allowing OSX to run on anything but Apple hardware and the only way to insure that is via the microprocessor.
Granted, this will be hacked withing a month but...
1) they have to have probable cause to pull you over and ask you to take a breath test.
2) even if they ask you to take a breath test, you can refuse.
3) in some states there can be consequences for refusing to take the test.
Once again, driving does not cause you to surrender your rights.
I predict lots of Mac Minis running Windows XP in the not so distant future...
They aren't documented. He's activating features that are hidden "using special codes" that are sent to the device.